Graduate Assistant
Collaborative Pianist, University of Tennessee
Collaborative Pianist & Piano Instructor
Four decades of performance, teaching, artistic leadership, and cross-cultural collaboration across the United States, Europe, Malaysia, and China.
Transformance Art project, The Meraki Project: Storytelling through Music, Art & Movement. Visit Transformance Art
Collaborative pianist for the Summer Music Festival at Crescendo Summer Institute.
Nuevo Tango - KnoxTrio performed chamber music arrangements of Piazzolla’s Argentine Tango on April 16.
Kibeka Trio cafe concerts featuring 20th- and 21st-century chamber works.
Produced and performed a staged reading of Ted Nichol’s opera Pilgrim’s Progress at the Square Room, Cafe 4, Knoxville.
Women’s Chorale concerts at Cox Auditorium.
Viola Studio Recital, Cosi fan tutte, Cello Graduate Recital, Tennessee Cello Workshop, Cello Senior Recital, Clarinet Studio Recital, and Women’s Chorus concerts.
Second Master Recital with professional violinist Myra-Lin from Phoenix, Arizona, and Genevan Trio.
Cello Night Recitals, Chamber Ensemble Recitals, Clarinet Recitals, Senior Recital (soprano), and Voice Area Solo Class Recitals.
First Master Recital with professional soprano Carla Hanson from Minnesota.
Piano trio performances with Genevan Trio, selected to participate at the Chamber Music Institute Summer Festival in Nebraska.
Chamber Ensemble Recital, Oboe Junior Recital, and Viola Celebration.
Piano Trio Concert with Li Qi (violin) and He Kan Ming (cello) at Nordica.
Spring Classical Concert with Li Qi (violin) and Yang Li Xia (soprano) at Nordica.
Produced and performed (piano and choir) Handel’s Messiah with the Miao Minority Choir and American soprano Emily Donaldson at the Minority Village in Kunming; 3,000 people attended.
Musical Palace Opera & Yunnan Modern Folk Music with Canadian soprano Shi Ni at Nordica.
Classical Music Concert with Dong Yi Hai (violin) and piano trio (Dong Yi Hai and He Kan Ming) at Nordica.
New Songs for the Season, a fundraising project hosted at Nordica.
Advent Christmas Benefit Concert, a fundraising project for earthquake victims in Szechuan province at Kunming International Academy and Nordica, with Swiss flutist Christian Studler of Crescendo.
Flautissimo Recital with Christian Studler, professor at the Music University Bern, with performances at Nordica and Yunnan Arts Institute.
Classic Meets Jazz with professional German soprano Uta Runne, featuring Lieder, arias, and jazz at Nordica.
Yunnan Voice Competitions, a three-month event at Kunming School of Arts with German soprano Uta Runne, Latvian soprano Gunta Davidcuka, and local Chinese singers. The semi-finals and finals were broadcast live on Yunnan TV for two weeks.
AIDS Benefit Concert with artists from Europe and Swiss flutist Christian Studler at Nordica.
The Night of Classic Music with Chinese violinist Dong Yi Hai at Nordica.
Violin Recital featuring Chinese and classical works with Chinese violinist Dong Yi Hai at Nordica.
New Year’s Concert at Nordica.
Song Recital with professional Danish soprano Marianne Nielsen at Nordica.
Schumann Piano Concerto with the Northern Arizona University Orchestra in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Accompanist for Northern Arizona University Chorale, Women’s Chorale, and junior, senior, and master’s vocal and instrumental recitals.
Toured extensively for four months as a pianist with the Continental Singers, a nonprofit, interdenominational musical mission organization based in Ventura, California. Performed in 10 states and in England, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, and Germany.
Private piano instructor in an independent teaching studio, teaching all levels in Malaysia, China, and the United States.
Church pianist in England, the United States, and China, performing traditional hymns, gospel, and contemporary worship in Baptist, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, and nondenominational churches.
Founder and President of Transformance Art, a 501(c)(3) creative arts organization fostering transformational performing experiences.
Piano Instructor at Bill Jones School of Music.
Church pianist at Fourth United Presbyterian.
Piano Instructor at Concord Performing Arts Academy.
Piano Instructor at Knox Music Studio.
Opera and song coach at Crescendo Summer Institute, Tokaj, Hungary.
Artistic Director at Arts of Faith International and staff minister at Artists in Christian Testimony International.
Pianist for the Women’s Chorus and freelance accompanist at the University of Tennessee.
Piano Instructor at Mount Olive Music Academy.
Collaborative Pianist and Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of Tennessee.
Accompanist at Kunming School of Art and Yunnan Arts Institute.
Music program coordinator and pianist at TCG Nordica in Kunming, China.
Staff Accompanist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Dance and ballet accompanist using the Royal Academy of Dancing syllabus at Federal Dance Academy in Malaysia and the Northern Arizona University Dance program in Flagstaff, Arizona.
M.M. in Collaborative Piano (Honors), University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
B.M. in Piano Performance (GPA 3.75), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Studied with piano professors at the Royal Academy of Music, Trinity College, and Guildhall School of Music in London, England.
Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music examination, Grade 8 (merit).
Janina Fialkowska, John Browning, Gabe Dobner, Arlene Shrut, Ilya Kaler, Formosa String Quartet, Escher Quartet, and Shigeo Neriki.
Collaborative Pianist, University of Tennessee
Northern Arizona University
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Ballroom dance competitor.
Frame drummer.
Founder of Just Essential, an artisan line of natural, cruelty-free perfume oils.
Certified Aromatherapy Coach. Certified in Raindrop Harmonics, a vibrational therapy using tuning forks, gemstones, essential oils, and color-light.
Music Coordinator for Knoxville International Network multicultural worship events, Missional Nights, in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Pianist with local Chinese musicians in Berakah Worship Band, Kunming, China.
TCG Nordica steering committee member - organizing, producing, promoting, performing, and creating music projects in Kunming, China.
Created and directed the first string orchestra among expatriates and homeschoolers, the Kunming Home-school String Orchestra.
Formed Tehillim Piano Trio with local musicians in Kunming.
Homeschool mother. Taught all subjects to her daughter and son using Accelerated Christian Education and Advanced Training Institute.
Co-managing director and founder of Coffee Shoppe International in Kunming. Trained local staff to serve multicultural cuisine to the Kunming International Academy and local and foreign communities.
Taught flag and tambourine dance using Shachah Ministries resources.
Developed and pioneered Kunming’s first homeschool cooperative for children and mothers.
Leadership team member with Target Ministries, church planting among unreached people groups in southeast China.
Mary Kay Consultant, managing her first in-home business in the United States.
Co-managing Director of Coffee Shoppe International in Flagstaff, Arizona. Established a nonprofit Christian social-services street outreach program using music in a multicultural setting, serving international communities and subcultures including single parents, runaways, international students, and people with special needs.
Taught ballet to elementary students using the Royal Academy of Dancing syllabus in Malaysia and Kunming. Studied ballet for 12 years using the RAD syllabus.
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