Biography

I am a Kansas-born educator and performer committed to sharing music with the communities around me. I earned a BM in Vocal Performance from Kansas State University and an MM in Voice from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, where I received a Preparing Future Faculty Fellowship. I completed a Doctor of Musical Arts in Voice and Opera at the University of Kansas, where I served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in Voice, and I later taught Applied Voice as an Adjunct Professor of Music at Rockhurst University while maintaining a private studio for singers of all ages.

I have performed throughout the United States and abroad with organizations including KU Opera, UMKC Opera, Landlocked Opera, Sun Valley Music Festival Chamber Program, and the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz, Austria, where I made my European orchestral debut in selections from Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story. In 2019, I was a Mezzo-Soprano Young Artist with the Ad Astra Music Festival. Recent highlights include Diana in the world premiere of Susan Kander’s chamber opera Carry My Own Suitcase, a recipient of the 2022 Opera America Discovery Grant, and Mrs. Lovett in KU’s 2024 production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd. Other operatic roles include Nerone ( L’incoronazione di Poppea), Sorceress (Dido and Aeneas), Ruth ( Pirates of Penzance), and Dritte Dame ( Die Zauberflote).

I am committed to research and to refining my work in the voice studio. My interests include the use of musical theatre repertoire in classical voice training and the study of underused solo voice repertoire for undergraduate singers. I currently serve as Assistant Instructional Professor of Music at Pittsburg State University and was selected for the 2025 cohort of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Intern Program, a fully funded professional-development initiative for early-career voice teachers.