PERFORMING
As a teenager, I attended two summer festivals focussed on string quartets. The interaction of individual voices and the artistic agency that comes with playing quartets sparked a passion for chamber music that has continued throughout my life.
Through college and into my first few years in San Diego I was a member of serious quartets. My group in San Diego, the Hyperion Quartet, won a top prize at the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, performed on NPR, and collaborated at festivals with members of the illustrious Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Miró Quartet.
Since coming to San Diego, I’ve had the opportunity to perform with principal players of the Cleveland Orchestra, LA Phil, San Diego Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony and more.
In the summer of 2021, I was the Gold Medal and Community Prize winner in Boston Symphony Concertmaster Nathan Cole’s online program, the Violympics. I earned these awards after earning the highest point total in six performing events where 200-plus violinists and violists were required to learn and record a new contemporary piece after working on it for just one week. Each event was judged by a noteworthy violinist, including Augustin Hadelich, James Ehnes and Gil Shaham.
As a soloist I won the Aspen Conducting Academy Concerto Competition, the La Jolla Young Artist Competition, and have performed as a recitalist across the USA, Mexico, France and Italy. I have recorded for Naxos, New World Records and multiple albums with the Danny Green Trio and the chamber-folk band The Tree Ring.
Film and television credits include several shows for Netflix, including “Chef’s Table,” and the feature films “Short Term 12” and “Just Mercy” among others.
Currently I split my time between San Diego and Santa Fe/Albuquerque, where I am Assistant Professor of Viola at the University of New Mexico. In San Diego, I perform with Camarada and Art of Elan, and as a regular substitute violist with the San Diego Symphony. In New Mexico I have performed as guest principal violist with the New Mexico Philharmonic and with the chamber music series Chatter.