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Expertise
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Work
Work
- Appearances on flute have included the June in Buffalo Festival, the Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College, the Lake Placid Institute, the Guggenheim Works and Process Series, the Ojai Festival, the Fromm Contemporary Music Series at Harvard University and The Dartington International Summer School in England.
- Appearances on Shakuhachi include the World Shakuhachi Festivals in Sydney, Australia in 2008, and in Kyoto in 2012, the Rockies Shakuhachi Camp in Boulder, Colorado from 2009 to 2011, at REDCAT in Los Angeles in 2009, and at Occidental College’s Thorne Hall in 2016 as guest artist with Makoto Taiko.
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Education
Education
- B.A., Goddard College
- M.M. and D.M.A. in flute performance, Manhattan School of Music with Thomas Nyfenger and Harvey Sollberger
In addition to teaching at Pomona College she is currently a professor of flute at California Institute of the Arts and teaches shakuhachi workshops and private students, as well as courses in performance health, including yoga and injury prevention for musicians
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
- First prize in the Kreauter Musical Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chamber Music
- Artists International Award, which led to debut performances at New York’s Carnegie Recital Hall and appointment to the roster of Affiliate Artists
- Recording grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alice M. Ditson Fund, and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music