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MY TEACHING

Teaching has always been a part of my life. My philosophy is that teaching is always accompanied with enthusiasm, led with empathy, and driven by disciplined engagement. Whether for private lessons, summer camps, community schools, large lecture halls for non-majors, or knit-tight seminars, I strive to encourage my students to think critically and find the access point from interdisciplinary examples for a deepening perspective of the material. 

Fun Fact: I am singing in this picture - not teaching, but would you have known the difference?  #Bastienne unt Bastienna (Millikin University, 2017)

GUEST LECTURES

2023    "Screening Innocence, Sounding Home: Disney's Singing Children" for the Undergraduate Children's Media Course at Texas                    A&M University, November 30.

2023    “I Heard It Differently: How Music Can Change a Score” for the Undergraduate Course - Music and Culture at the                                University of Texas at Austin, April 14. 

2023    “Improvising Sound and Play” for the Undergraduate Course - Music and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin,                          February 8. 

2022     “Tiptoeing Through the Movies: Ballet in Hollywood” for the Graduate Course -Music of the Ballet at the University of Texas                 at Austin, November 1.

2022     “Singing at the Movies!” Film Music Guest Lecture and Voice Masterclass at the Austin School for Performing and Visual Arts,              April 29.

2022     “Lost Without a Cue: The Progression of Music and Masculinity in Film Noir” for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute                          program at the University of Texas at Austin, April 7.

UNIVERSITY COURSE CATALOG

University of Texas at Austin

  • History II - Music from 1734 - 1914 (Spring 2024)

  • American Musicals  (Fall 2023)              

  • Music and Culture   (Spring 2023)   

  • Intro to Film Music and Sound (Fall 2022)    

  • History of Rock Music (Spring 2022)

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California State University, Long Beach

  • 20th Century Music - Special Topics in Film Noir  (Spring 2020)

  • Film and Music  (Spring 2019 - Spring 2020)

  • Pop Music in America (Fall 2019)

  • Listener’s Approach to Music  (Fall 2018)                         

 

Millikin University

  • Honor’s Documentary Film Making (Fall 2017 - Fall 2018)

  • Survey of Western Music  (Fall 2017 - Spring 2018)           

FURTHER TEACHING ARTIST EXPERIENCE

  • Hideout Improv Theater Summer Camp (K-5), Austin Texas 

  • ZACH Theater Summer Camp for Voice / Design / Short Form Improv, (K-5) Austin Texas 

  • Congregation Agudas Achim for Judaica (K-2), Austin Texas

  • Keyauwee Program Center (K-8), Sophia North Carolina

  • Temple Emanuel for Music and Judaica (K-6), Winston-Salem North Carolina

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