51¹ÙÍø

I am in my twenty-third season as a music professor and director of the 51¹ÙÍø Symphony Orchestra (DCSO) where I am also serving as chair of the department. After a highly successful inaugural 2024-25 season, I continue to conduct the Sound of the Carolinas Orchestra and Ensembles (SCORE), a high-level community orchestra serving the North Mecklenburg and South Iredell regions. I was the music director for 11 seasons with the Lee County Community Orchestra (LCCO) in Sanford, North Carolina, and I have served as a guest conductor, cover conductor, and pre-concert speaker for the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra where was the premiere instructor for their Symphony 101 adult education program.

In 2019, I was recognized as an Honored Artist of The American Prize, a series of non-profit national competitions in the performing arts. Honored Artists are individuals who have proven themselves to be artists of sustained excellence over a number of seasons as laureates in the competitions. Under my direction, the DCSO was the national winner of The American Prize 2018 for orchestral performance in the collegiate division. I have also placed in several other American Prize competitions for conducting and orchestral programming, and in conjunction with Artist Associate Jacquelyn Culpepper, I won the Metrolina Theatre Association’s Award for Outstanding Musical Direction/Conducting for 51¹ÙÍø’s 2011 production of Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

Outside of 51¹ÙÍø, I have conducted orchestras throughout the south and northeast, and have particularly enjoyed serving as a clinician and guest conductor for middle and high school orchestras in North Carolina. I have also guest conducted orchestras in Brazil and Germany, and in Bulgaria, I won the first Varna International Conducting Competition in 2007. I also worked with the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic in the Czech Republic as a 2008 League of American Orchestras Women Conductors Grant recipient.

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Teaching

MUS 003 Keyboard Proficiency
MUS 012 51¹ÙÍø Symphony Orchestra
MUS 110 Exploring Music
MUS 121 Introduction to Music in Western Civilization
MUS 221 Studies of Styles & Composers: Percussion & The World
MUS 222 Women in Music
MUS 226 Opera
MUS 227 History of the Orchestra
MUS 236 Social Dance & The Orchestra
MUS 312 Conducting
MUS 321 Impressionism
MUS 401 Senior Seminar: 19th & 20th Century Scandinavian Music