ABOUT ME

I’ve been studying and performing music all my life. As a small child, I was in love with the sound of the choir and the pipe organ at church services and obsessed with hearing my sister play the piano. My older siblings taught me to sing the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel and Bob Dylan as soon as I could speak. I joined a children’s choir at age 6 and have been singing in at least one choir at any given time since then! After a few years of begging to learn piano, my parents let me start lessons at Winborne-Shaw piano studio in my hometown of Oshkosh, WI, where I studied for nine years, until I started college. During my time working with Carol Winborne, I was highly successful in yearly MTNA auditions and won a couple of scholarships. I also began studying organ with Joanne Peterson beginning in middle school, and I had my very first paid gig as a church organist when I was sixteen. At school and church, I sang in choirs, performed in plays and musicals, and was often asked to do public speaking.

When I enrolled in college at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, I began studying classical voice and working as an accompanist for other voice students. This experience was so valuable to my development as a musician and as a teacher, because every week I not only received personal instruction from my own wonderful teacher, Joyce Andrews, but I also got to observe the lessons I accompanied and learn from the individual challenges each of those students worked through with their teachers. I also learned about five times as much voice repertoire as an accompanist as I would have been exposed to as just a voice student. I graduated from UW-O with a Bachelor of Music degree with an emphasis in vocal performance.

I relocated to Los Angeles in 2010. At first, I had an office job and did music gigs on the side, but I transitioned to full-time music work in 2014. In addition to teaching lessons, I perform professionally as a singer, organist, and pianist with musical groups all over the greater L.A. area, including Pacific Chorale, the Charles Dickens Carolers, the chancel choir of Pacific Palisades Presbyterian Church, Schola Enchiriadis at St Andrew Catholic Church in Pasadena, and many others.