Student Success

Gaining admission to music programs at the University of Southern California, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State University, among others
Started as a complete adult beginner and developed to the early advanced level of piano repertoire
Participating in OMTA (Oregon Music Teachers Association) festivals and competitions
Healing emotional wounds relating to the piano from previous teachers
Performing a full recital at The Old Church Concert Hall of virtuosic music by Beethoven, Chopin, Nikolai Kapustin, and Couperin
Advancing through the OMTA (Oregon Music Teachers Association) Syllabus Exams
Learning to read music scores fluently after only playing by ear
Learning how to improvise on hymn tunes as a church musician
Creating their own local piano teaching studios for young beginning students
Went on to do graduate research on the neuroscience of piano playing
Learning to play by ear after only playing from reading scores

Chosen as All Classical Radio’s 2023 Young Artist in Residence
Went on to study music and performance at the Institute of Contemporary Music in London, the University of Oregon, and other schools
Participation in summer composition festivals and workshops at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music and the Juilliard School of Music
Multiple students’ new chamber works workshopped and premiered through the Fear No Music Young Composers Project
Multiple students’ new orchestra works premiered by the Metropolitan Youth Symphony
Professional student successfully taught an orchestration course as a tenure-track professor of music at a university
High-school-aged student founded and managed a local high school chamber series, Pacific Rose Ensemble, that programmed both standard repertoire and new student compositions
Participation in masterclasses with visiting composers through Fear No Music and Chamber Music Northwest