Growing up in a family of professional musicians and educators, I fell in love with teaching because it offered a unique opportunity for personal growth while empowering students at the same time. Over the years, I have been fortunate to teach students who have won competitions and continued to pursue music professionally in conservatories like Eastman and Juilliard, but the most rewarding part of teaching for me remains witnessing the lifelong impact of music lessons on students’ lives regardless of their career path.

 

I have been teaching privately for almost three decades and have also been on faculty at Messiah University, Shenandoah Conservatory and Levine School of Music, as well as given masterclasses in US and abroad. From 2006 to 2019, I have directed a week-long summer chamber music program or young performers and composers, which I co-founded at Messiah University. With my long-time chamber music partner, Dr. Michael Stepniak, the 9th Master of Queen’s College at the University of Melbourne, I have co-authored a book on the future music training in higher education published by Routledge Press and College Music Society. 

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Teaching continues to be a source of joy and inspiration in my life both in my private studio and as a faculty at Washington Musical Pathways Initiative and Sunderman Conservatory at Gettysburg College.