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Teaching
To the right is a portfolio of my student teaching experience at East Brunswick High School in Fall 2025. It compiles multiple artifacts that support my alignment with New Jersey Professional Standards for Teachers (InTASC).
Teaching videos available to prospective employers upon request.
Conducting
During Westminster Choir College’s Celebration of Black Music, I participated in a conducting masterclass with Dr. Felicia Barber, Associate Professor of Conducting from Yale University. To the left is an audio recording of me conducting “Blow the Trumpet” from Rosephanye Powell’s Quiet Revolutionary. Below are additional photos from the masterclass (March 4, 2025).
In completion of the Baccalaureate Honors Program, I presented on Vivaldi’s Gloria (RV 589) at the Westminster Choir College Music Ed. Hall of Fame Awards. At the conclusion of the presentation, I conducted the first movement “Gloria” (May 5, 2025).
Voice
“Der Neugierige” from Die schöne Müllerin by Franz Schubert.
Performance Class (November 4, 2024)
During Westminster’s Celebration of Black Music, I was selected to perform in a Voice Masterclass with Dr. Rochelle Ellis, voice faculty from Princeton University. There I performed “I Dream a World” by Rosephanye Powell (March 5, 2025).
Piano
A performance of Chopin Op. 7 no. 2, Mazurka in A Minor (December 10, 2025).
Writing
Most recently, I became a published author in Nota Bene: Canadian Undergraduate Journal of Musicology, a peer-reviewed journal based in Canada that publishes high quality undergraduate musicology writing from around the world. My article “Wiyawi Ebi”: A Study of Kalinga Vocal Music from the Philippines explores the traditional vocal music of the Indigenous Kalinga people.
“Achieving Musical Identity: The Dialectics of Taste” examines the formation of musical identity through the lens of “taste.” Received Honorable Mention for 2022-2023 Dr. Anne Salvatore Award Best Great Ideas Essay
Kicks, Chops, and Creaks: The Rise of Jersey Club Music
Teaching Philosophy (updated Dec. 2023)
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