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I am in my twenty-first season as a professor of music and director of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø Symphony Orchestra (DCSO). 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø’s 2011 production of Sondheim’s Into the Woods.

Outside of Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø, 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 Â鶹ÊÓƵ¹ÙÍø 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