Musical Performance

I was trained as a classical pianist and worked for many years as an accompanist for choirs, voice teachers, and musical theatre groups. Most recently, I was the accompanist for the Concert Choir at Wesleyan University from 2015–2017, and have also worked for Amherst College, Boston College, Yale University, and the Brattleboro Concert Choir. As music director at Double Edge Theatre, I composed, arranged, taught, and performed music for three touring performances and eight site-specific traveling spectacles. In addition to piano, I played harpsichord, accordion, guitar, hammered dulcimer, recorder, and hand percussion. Since first visiting the Republic of Georgia in 2012, I have been studying the traditional vocal music of Georgia, with special interest in the trio song repertoire of Guria, on the Black Sea Coast. I have been a member of Supruli, a Georgian choir based in New York City, and established study groups for Georgian singing at Double Edge Theatre and Wesleyan University. I am prepared to teach Georgian songs for mixed groups with little prior musical training. Since 2015, I have been an amateur performer of Javanese gamelan music, working with I. M. Harjito and Sumarsam at Wesleyan University, and performing with Gamelan Kusuma Laras in New York City from 2017 to 2020.