At Cornell, I have studied organ with Tim Olsen, Annette Richards, and David Yearsley; conducting with James Patrick Miller and Chris Kim; and voice with Thom Baker. At Miami University, I received a Bachelor's of Music in Piano Performance, studying with Robert Thomas.

Selected repertoire

Voice:

  • Songs of Travel: The Vagabond, Let Beauty Awake, The Infinite Shining Heavens, Whither Must I Wander, Bright is the Ring of Words. Ralph Vaughan Williams.
  • Winterreise: Gute Nacht, Der Lindenbaum, Irrlicht, Frülingstraum, Der Wegweiser. Franz Schubert.
  • The Road Goes Ever On. Donald Swann, words by J.R.R. Tolkien.
  • Folksong Arrangements: Down by the Salley Gardens; Come You Not from Newcastle; O Waly, Waly; The Ash Grove; Sweet Polly Oliver. arr. Benjamin Britten.
  • Deposuit from Magnificat, BWV 243. J.S. Bach.
  • Flow my tears, A shephard in a shade, Come heavy sleep. John Dowland.
  • Comfort ye and Ev'ry valley from Messiah. G. F. Handel.
  • King ever glorious from The Crucifixion. John Stainer.

Organ:

  • Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 547. J.S. Bach.
  • Passacaglia in d, BuxWV 161. Dietrich Buxtehude.
  • Noëls no. 3, 8, 9, 10, 11.  Louis-Claude Daquin
  • Choral varié sur le thème du Veni Creator from op. 4.  Maurice Duruflé.
  • Évocation I.  Thierry Escaich.
  • Chorale no. 3 in a. César Franck.
  • Prélude, Fugue et Variation, op. 18. César Franck.
  • VIII from Méditations sur le Mystère de la Sainte Trinité.  Olivier Messiaen.
  • La Nativité du Seigneur: Les Bergers, Desseins Eternels, Les Anges, Dieu parmi nous. Olivier Messiaen.
  • Annum per annum, Pari intervallo, and Trivium. Arvo Pärt.
  • Pines Near a Catacomb from Pines of Rome.  Ottorino Respighi, trans. Michael Clarkson.
  • Prelude in B-flat.  Ottorino Respighi.
Piano:
  • Prelude and Fugue in g, BWV 885. J.S. Bach.
  • Fantasia in c, BWV 906. J.S. Bach.
  • Sonata in C, op. 53, Waldstein. Ludwig van Beethoven.
  • Prelude and Fugue in Bb, op. 36, no. 6. Felix Mendelssohn.
  • Sonata in g, op. 50, Eroica. Edward MacDowell.
  • Tre Preludi sopra Melodie Gregoriane. Ottorino Respighi.
  • Prelude and Fugue in D, op. 87, no. 5. Dmitri Shostakovich.
  • Toccata alla danza. William Mathias.

Organ transcriptions

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