TEACHING
My students in the last fifteen years represent many countries, backgrounds, and career trajectories. They have earned teaching positions in South Korea, Taiwan, China, the U.S., and Brazil, and won auditions in the Hong Kong Sinfonietta, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in the UK, the Cape Town Symphony in South Africa, and orchestras in Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Indiana, and Texas. They have gained admission to the Royal College of Music in London, as well as Eastman, Indiana, Southern Methodist University, Texas Christian University, Baylor University and DePaul for graduate study. They have earned scholarships to attend summer festivals including Bowdoin, Texas Music Festival, Aspen, Eastern Music Festival, and Brevard. I am deeply invested in my students’ success and strive to offer them the same kind of life-long mentoring I have been fortunate to receive from my teachers.
Since the Fall of 2011, I have been on the faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music where I teach viola and chamber music. The Viola Department at UNT currently enrolls about 30 violists from around the world, pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in Viola Performance, Music Education, Historical Performance, and related fields such as conducting, performing arts health, and composition.
In addition to teaching applied viola and chamber music, I teach String Pedagogy for violinists and violists. I love training teachers to work in a variety of contexts, whether in the private studio, or in Suzuki or public school orchestra settings. Graduate students work with me on a range of projects, through my Doctoral Literature seminar or in "special problems" (independent study) classes. Their research has ranged from creating a critical edition of the Biber Passacaglia for viola, to exploring the Principles of Karen Tuttle’s Coordination in specific repertoire. I serve on several DMA advisory committees each year, and chair the Graduate Performance Degree Committee, which oversees all UNT College of Music DMA dissertations.
I serve as Director of the Summer String Institute at UNT. Over the last decade, this program has brought nealy 1000 students from 14 countries and 18 states to our campus.
In past summers I’ve also traveled to teach in Honduras, Vietnam, and Brazil, and to play chamber music and do community outreach in Iowa. I previously taught at Wintergreen Performing Arts Summer Music Academy (2017), Sewanee Summer Music Festival (2013, 2014), the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts (2008-2012), and the Raphael Trio Chamber Music Workshop at High Mowing School in Wilton, NH (2008, 2010, and 2012.)
In Brazil, it has been my pleasure to travel yearly to gatherings for violists in cities such as Porto Alegre, Brasília, Natal, and for the Encontro Nacional de Violistas in Belém, Belo Horizonte, João Pessoa, and Florianópolis. From 2007 to 2014, I was coordinator of String Faculty and Chamber Music at Festival de Cordas Nathan Schwartzman in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, a festival based on community outreach that grew over nine years to serve 400 participants each year. I am excited for the 49th International Viola Congress in Campinas in July 2024!
Since the Fall of 2011, I have been on the faculty at the University of North Texas College of Music where I teach viola and chamber music. The Viola Department at UNT currently enrolls about 30 violists from around the world, pursuing undergraduate and graduate degrees in Viola Performance, Music Education, Historical Performance, and related fields such as conducting, performing arts health, and composition.
In addition to teaching applied viola and chamber music, I teach String Pedagogy for violinists and violists. I love training teachers to work in a variety of contexts, whether in the private studio, or in Suzuki or public school orchestra settings. Graduate students work with me on a range of projects, through my Doctoral Literature seminar or in "special problems" (independent study) classes. Their research has ranged from creating a critical edition of the Biber Passacaglia for viola, to exploring the Principles of Karen Tuttle’s Coordination in specific repertoire. I serve on several DMA advisory committees each year, and chair the Graduate Performance Degree Committee, which oversees all UNT College of Music DMA dissertations.
I serve as Director of the Summer String Institute at UNT. Over the last decade, this program has brought nealy 1000 students from 14 countries and 18 states to our campus.
In past summers I’ve also traveled to teach in Honduras, Vietnam, and Brazil, and to play chamber music and do community outreach in Iowa. I previously taught at Wintergreen Performing Arts Summer Music Academy (2017), Sewanee Summer Music Festival (2013, 2014), the Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts (2008-2012), and the Raphael Trio Chamber Music Workshop at High Mowing School in Wilton, NH (2008, 2010, and 2012.)
In Brazil, it has been my pleasure to travel yearly to gatherings for violists in cities such as Porto Alegre, Brasília, Natal, and for the Encontro Nacional de Violistas in Belém, Belo Horizonte, João Pessoa, and Florianópolis. From 2007 to 2014, I was coordinator of String Faculty and Chamber Music at Festival de Cordas Nathan Schwartzman in Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, a festival based on community outreach that grew over nine years to serve 400 participants each year. I am excited for the 49th International Viola Congress in Campinas in July 2024!
