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seasonal highlights

Soloist
  • Handel: Messiah (Church of St. Luke and St. Matthew)
World premieres
  • Stephen Main: The Image
  • Tania León: Untitled new work
Choral
Featured soloist
  • Carol Barnett: The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass (Carnegie Hall)
World premieres
  • Benedict Sheehan: Akathist (Trinity Church)
    • GRAMMY® nomination: Best Choral Performance (Sheehan: Akathist)
  • Kadim Al Sahir: “Hold Your Fire” (UN Chamber Music Society)
New York premieres
Choral
Soloist
Choral
Chamber
Choral
  • Trinity Church
Chamber
Choral
World premieres
Choral
Choral
Featured soloist
  • Handel: Messiah (St. Luke’s School, CT)
  • Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore with Blue Heron (Wheaton College, MA)

performance experience

Chorister, Downtown Voices
New York, N.Y. | March 2018 – present
  • A semi-professional choir made up of volunteer singers from the New York metro area and members of the GRAMMY®-nominated Trinity Choir
  • Performing in multiple concerts at Trinity venues during the year, as well as other opportunities in the off-season
Staff Singer
Brooklyn, N.Y. | October 2022 – present
  • Leading worship services at a historic Episcopal parish
  • Familiar with multiple service settings, Episcopal liturgy, and hymnals
  • Ability to learn music with quick reading and little to no preparation time
New York, N.Y. | April 2022 – present
  • Substituting at worship services across New York City
  • Utilizing familiarity with multiple service settings, liturgy, and hymnals (of mainline Christian denominations)
  • Performing solo cantorial repertoire, one-on-a-part repertoire, and serving as a choral ringer
  • Using the ability to learn music quickly with advanced reading skills and little to no preparation time
Manhattan 
  • St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church
  • Parish of Saint Brigid – Saint Emeric
  • Parish of Most Holy Redeemer – Nativity
  • St. Vartan Armenian Apostolic Cathedral
Brooklyn and Queens
  • St. James Cathedral Basilica
  • Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph
  • Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
  • St. Paul’s Carroll Street
  • St. Pancras Parish
2024
  • Nippon Club Chorus (dir. Reona Ito)
  • Park Slope Singers (dir. Elena Williamson)
2023
  • Gomidas Choir (dir. Kris Kalfayan)

teaching experience

Music Teacher
New York, N.Y. | July – December 2023
  • Taught music classes to children ages 0-3
  • Facilitated child and adult participation in group listening, singing, and movement
  • Led and performed songs from the Musikgarten curriculum
  • Interacted individually with infants and toddlers and liaised with their caregivers
  • Observed music classes and collaborated with instructors on updates to future classes
Vocal Mentor
New York, N.Y. | January – March 2020
  • Modeled professional behavior for student vocalists in rehearsals and performances
  • Served as section leader and educator during rehearsals

school experience

Student musical groups
Norton, Mass. | September 2012 – May 2016
  • Wheaton College Chorale: alto section leader, Chorale Assistant, and Librarian
  • Wheaton College Chamber Singers: alto section leader
  • Contemporary Music Ensemble: vocalist for In C (Terry Riley)
  • Commencement soloist, 2016
Senior voice recital
Norton, Mass. | April 2016
  • Highlighted female composers (Beach, Chaminade, Schumann) as well as lieder, arias, and art songs (Barber, Brahms, Gluck, Vivaldi)

classes and awards

Winner, Ellalou Dimmock Award in Vocal Performance
April 2015, 2016
Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.

Winner, Concerto-Aria Competition
April 2014, 2015
Wheaton College, Norton, Mass.

Winner, Chaminade Club Scholarship Music Festival
April 2014, 2016
Providence, R.I.

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