Education:
D.M.A. Composition – University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, (in progress, currently ABD)
M.M. Composition – University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, 2008
B.M. Composition – University of Southern California, Thornton School of Music, Magna cum laude, Composition, 2006
Composition Awards and Honours:
2011 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award Finalist for An Imaginary Thing
2010 Seasons Festival Composition Fellow (Yakima, WA)
2009 ASCAP Lotte Lehmann Foundation Art Song Competition – 3rd prize
2009 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award
2009 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium Composition and Conducting Fellow (Eugene, OR)
2008 Pacific Music Festival Composition Fellow (Sapporo, Japan)
2008 New England Conservatory SICPP Composition Fellow, (Boston, MA)
2008 Peter David Faith Award in Composition, USC
2008 University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NEON Composition Fellow (Las Vegas, NV)
Finalist for 2008 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
Finalist for 2007 Morton Gould Young Composer Awards
2006 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award recipient
Recent Commissions:
2012 AIDS Quilt Songbook 20th Anniversary – I’ve Looked For You (for voice and piano)
ASCAP Lotte Lehman Foundation – art song for voice and piano
2010 Phoenix Concerts – Flare (for string quartet)
2010 Art Song Forward – Unplugged – A Line-storm Song (for voice and piano)
2010 Seasons Festival – Grey Glass (for orchestra)
2010 Nicolas Gerpe and Pasha Tseitlin – An Imaginary Thing (for violin and piano)
2010 Artwallah, Festival of South Asian Music – Fade to Infinity (for two speakers, tabla and violin)
2009 Connie Sheu – Black (for solo guitar)
Teaching Experience:
USC Thornton School of Music, Department of Theory and Composition,
Instructor 2011 – present
Courses taught – MUCO 101 Fundamentals of Music Theory; MUCO 130b Music Theory for non-majors
USC Thornton School of Music, Department of Theory and Composition,
Graduate Teaching Assistant 2008 – 2011
Courses taught – Aural Skills I and II; Music Theory I and II
Lake Avenue Church Music Conservatory,
Instructor 2008 – 2009
Courses taught – Music Theory I, II and III
Professional Affiliations:
Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honour society
International Alliance of Women in Music ASCAP