I come from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where I came to music early after my mother taught me how to work her turntable and gave me a stack of Motown and doo-wop 45rpm records. I left Pennsylvania to attend Oberlin Conservatory for voice and music education, and then continued working on both sides of the podium at Yale University, where I am the only student to have completed a Master’s of Music in both voice and choral conducting. Despite my classical training, I am very much a pop nerd and will never be able to commit to only creating or listening to one type of music full-time.

After leaving Yale, I moved to Boston to teach music and have continued gigging as a classical singer ever since. Then, I spent two years in Japan, teaching classroom music just outside of Tokyo. When it was time for me to return to the States, I was happy to be offered the position at Beaver, where I’m enjoying the chance to share my multidirectional, multicultural approach to music with its open-minded students and the rest of the Beaver community.