SELECT PERFORMANCES
Swedish Parliament Opening with Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde (2025)
Carnegie Hall (2024-2025)
University of Utah Opera (2024)
Dayton Philharmonic (2024)
Red River Lyric Opera Festival (2023)
Collective Euphonia (2023)
Duke University Opera (2022)
Durham Symphony (2022)
Women’s Hope Chorale (2019)
Shakespeare & Company (2012-13)
Fort Wayne Philharmonic (2010)
LongLeaf Opera Company (2009)
Richmond Symphony (2006)
Philadelphia Orchestra (2003)
Minnesota Orchestra (2003)
SELECT COMMISSIONS
The Music We Build Together - Aliso Niguel High School String Orchestra, Jonathan Chen, Cond. - NYC Wind Band Festival @ Carnegie Hall (2026)
What Lies Within Us - Santa Rosa High School Concert Band, Timothy Decker, Cond. - NYC Wind Band Festival @ Carnegie Hall (2025)
Inside for SATB choir and piano for South Oregon University Choirs - Oregon Center for the Arts (2024)
When the People for SATB choir and piano for Triad Vocal Ensemble, Canticle for Life AIDS Benefit (2024)
Esperanza Rising for Longleaf Opera Company and NC Arts Council (2009)
We Are Met at Gettysburg for Philadelphia Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra (2003)
GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Thomas D. Dee, II Endowment Grant for ALICE (2024)
North Carolina Arts Council Artist Development Grant (2023)
Evan Frankel Fellowship, Duke University (2011)
Aleane Webb Dissertation Research Award, Duke University (2011)
Duke University Summer Research Fellowship (2011)
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RESIDENCIES
World Projects, New York Wind Band Festival, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY (2025 & 2026)
University of Utah, Opera at the U, Salt Lake City, UT (2024)
Red River Lyric Opera Festival, Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, TX (2023)
Collective Euphonia, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA (2023)
Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, WV (2001)
SELECT HONORS & AWARDS
2025 National Opera Association Opera Production Award for ALICE, 3rd Place
2024 National Opera Association Presenter: ALICE Through the Lens of Autism
2023 American Prize in Opera Composition, 3rd Place
Music Subject of 1 PhD Dissertation, 2 Master's Theses, and 4 Undergraduate Academic Papers
2013 Feminist Theory and Music Conference Presenter: PEARL
2010 Sigma Alpha Iota Honorary Member Induction
1999 became the youngest composer published by Theodore Presser Company
1996 Music Featured at the National Convention for Women in the Arts, Rice University, Houston, TX
SELECT MEDIA
2025 Autism Stories Podcast, Featured Guest
2022 Are You Sleeping? "How to Dream Creatively" (Vox Media, Hosted by Kate Berlant)
2013 New England Public Radio, PEARL
2010 NE Indiana Public Radio, What the Soul Remembers with the Fort Wayne Philharmonic
2003 WHYY Philadelphia, Feature and Airing of We Are Met at Gettysburg
2003 MPR Minneapolis, Feature and Airing of We Are Met at Gettysburg
SELECT TEACHING & ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2013-2015 Professor of Music, Fundamentals of Music Theory, Duke University
2008-2013 Teaching Assistant, Music Theory, Ear Training, and various other music courses
EDUCATION
PhD in Music Composition, Duke University, 2015
Masters of Music Composition, Duke University, 2010
Masters of Music Composition, Peabody Conservatory at Johns Hopkins University, 1998
Bachelors of Music Composition, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, 1996
European American Musical Alliance, Paris France, 1999
Aspen Music Festival, 1994
Westminster Choir College Composition Summer Program, 1990
SKILLS
MUSIC & COMPOSITION
Opera, Orchestra, Band, Choir, Solo Piano, Chamber, Orchestration, Arranging
SOFTWARE & TECH
Finale, Dorico, Adobe Creative Suite, Wix, HTML
PUBLISHING AND PRODUCTION
Self-Publishing, Digital Sheet Music Distribution, Print-On-Demand, Licensing & Copyright Management, Project Management
COMMUNICATION & COLLABORATION
Public Speaking, Panel Participation, Teaching and Presenting, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Grant Writing
ARTISTIC & THEATRICAL
Libretto Development (in collaboration), Dramaturgical Research, Cross-Disciplinary Storytelling