C.V.

Education

Case Western Reserve University: DMA Historical Performance Practice, Expected 2014, Cleveland, Ohio

Ithaca College School of Music: M.M. Double Bass Performance, 2011, Ithaca, New York

The City College of New York, CUNY: B.A. Music, 2008, New York, New York

Private Study

Rob Nairin: historical bass (2011 – Current)
Cathy Meints: viola da gamba (2011 – Current)
Nicholas Walker: double bass (2003 – 2005, 2008 – 2011)
François Rabbath: double bass (2005 – 2006)
Judith Davidoff: viola da gamba (2007 – 2008)
Caroline Copeland: baroque dance (2008)

Awards and Honors

2011 – Current CWRU DMA Assistantship
2009 – 2011 Ithaca College Teaching Assistant
2007 Downer Language Award in French
2007 Russano Hanning Prize for Outstanding Music History Scholar
2006 Naumberg Fellowship
2005 – 2008 Georgie and William B. Snyder Scholarship
2005 – 2008 City College Fellowship
2004 – 2008 Kaye Scholarship
2002 – 2003 Geico Family Scholarship

Performance Experience

Berkeley Early Music Fesitval, Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music America's Young Performer's Festival Ensemble, Tri-Cities Opera, Orchestra of the Southern Fingerlakes, John Romey Trio/Quartet


Institute Internationale François Rabbath, George Vance, Slava Publishing Summer Bass Workshop (2006-2008)

Lectures and Demonstrations

2012 "Symbols of Virtuosity: Portraits of Cellists and Gambists in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries" (Society for Eighteenth-Century Music, Chapel Hill, NC)

2010 – 2012 Lecture Recital “Revisiting Dittersdorf: A Viennese Violone Perspective” (Performances at Ithaca College, Syracuse University, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and Oberlin Conservetory)

2006 “Lessons with a Master: Researching the Pedagogy and Technique of François Rabbath and the Nouvelle technique de la contrabass” (The City College of New York, Ithaca College)

2006 “Acoustic Properties and the Nouvelle technique de la contrabass” City College Fellowship Research Conference

Teaching Experience

2009 – 2011 Teaching Assistantship Ithaca College (Class Strings, Class Bass, Private Lessons, Subbing for Studio Teacher)

2008 – Current Private Studio Instruction

2008 – 2011 On faculty as double bass and electric bass private instructor at Community School of Music and Arts [Ithaca, NY]

2008 – 2010 Teacher, Ensemble Leader, and Lecturer at the Community School of Music and Arts Jazz Institute [Ithaca, NY]

Service

2011 – Current Early Music America's Young Artist's Advisory Board

Memberships

International Society of Bassists

Viola da Gamba Society of America

Early Music America

Society for Seventeenth-Century Music

Soceity for Eighteenth-Century Music