Education 

2015-2018       Hunter College, New York, NY.  M.A., Music Education

  • 1998-2001 University of California, Los Angeles. Music Composition 

  • 1996-1998       University of California, San Diego.  Music and Acting

  • Additional Training (Musical Theatre)

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  • 2002-2004 BMI-Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Writing Workshop (NY, NY)

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  • Selected Commissions 

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  • 2016, Dance, Composer and Performer

  • Antipodes 

  •  Original music and live performance for a dance piece by choreographer Douglas Dunn, co-commissioned (with Steven Taylor) by the Danspace Project 2016-17, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Performances: Feb. 2-4, 2016, St. Mark’s Church, NYC.

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  • 2016, Theatre, Composer/ Lyricist and Performer

  • Reynard the Fox 

  • Music and lyrics for a full-length theater piece, developed through the St. Ann’s Warehouse Puppet Lab in New York City, October 2013 – May 2014.  

  • Grants awarded: Jim Henson Foundation Seed Grant 2014-15 and Production Grant 2015-16.  Also supported through residencies at Mount Tremper Arts (Shandaken, NY) and a residency/work in progress showing at Drop, Forge & Tool (Hudson, NY).

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  • 2015, Theatre, Composer/ Lyricist

  • Gurley 

  • Music and lyrics for original musical based on the life of Helen Gurley Brown,  commissioned in 2015 by Julie Crosby and the Women's Project, NYC.  Bookwriter: Lynn Rosen.

  • Selected Music Directing, Arrangements and Accompaniment

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  • 2013 The Threepenny Opera, Atlantic Theatre Company

  • Piano accompanist, vocal coach, and assistant to Arthur Solari and director Martha Clarke

          

2012 Pullman Car Hiawatha, Packer Collegiate Institute Upper School, NYC     

  • Composer and Music Director. Director:  Jenny Mercein.

2011 Seven Deadly Sins, The Culture Project, NY, NY. 

  •  Accompanist, vocalist. With Kyra Miller.

  • 2010 The Great and Secret Show by Mike Daisey, WNYC's Greene Space, 

  • Arranger and accompanist for Daisey's radio show.

Recordings

Heirloom, original score for TV series (2015).  Starring Paten Hughes, Tom Wopat.  Dir. Michael Melamadoff

Laura Brenneman (EP), release date: 01-19-2010.  Produced by Tony Maimone (They Might Be Giants) and recorded at Studio G, Brooklyn.

Live from the Hermitage (EP), release date: 03-2007. Self-released debut. Recorded at The Seaside Lounge, Brooklyn

Additional Music Education Training

  • Weill Music Institute, Carnegie Hall

    • Summer Educators Workshop 

  • Lucy Moses School, Dalcroze Summer Intensive

    • Certificate level work in solfege, improvisation, and Eurythmics

    • Instructors: Cynthia Lilly, Michael Joviala, Leslie Upchurch

  • Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Early Childhood Intensive

    • Kodaly & Orff Pedagogies

    • Instructors: Sherri Gottlieb, Bryan Drye

Recent Education Grants

  2021 Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, Knutson Grant 

2021 NYC Arts in Education Roundtable,  ‘Empire State Creates’ Grant

  • Selected Teaching Experience

    • Stratford Music, LLC, Brooklyn, NY, 2021-present

      • Owner/Educator

        • Private music studio specializing in piano, composition, and vocal study.

        • Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, NYC, Spring 2019-present

          • Teaching artist for the Music Partners program

          • Residencies at PS 217 (Brooklyn) and Sunny Skies Pre-K (Sunset Park)

        • Talent Unlimited High School, NYC, Fall 2018

          • Led and/or co-taught musical theatre and art song vocal rep, sight-singing and musicianship, collaborative piano, concert choir

          • Designed and implemented a curriculum for newly-created collaborative piano class

          • One-on-one coaching for vocal majors

          • Piano accompanist for concert choir

        • The Berkeley Carroll School, Brooklyn, NY, 2012-2014 

Professional Affiliations

NAfME

NYC Arts in Education Roundtable

ASCAP

The Songwriters Guild

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