At a Glance

Highlights

  • Conducted works by female composers Mabel Daniels, Elaine Hagenberg, Jennifer Higdon, and Ruth Gipps

  • Conducted fully staged production of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat at Queens College Arts Festival

  • Music directed productions of Damn Yankees, Guys and Dolls, South Pacific, I Love You Because, and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

  • Music directed premiere of Thomas Whitman's chamber opera, The Royal Singer

  • Music directed Figaro scenes with original orchestrations for cello, clarinet, and piano with Sandbox Opera in NYC 

  • Conducted virtual orchestra performance of "Firebird" with FilmMelodic Socially Distant Orchestra, featured on WNBC Sunday Today

  • Founding member of the New Conductors Orchestra, a NYC civic orchestra promoting emerging conductors

Biographical Info

  • Born in Queens, NY, on May 10 – is a Taurus!

  • Graduated from Swarthmore College with a BA in Music 

  • Earned MM in Conducting from the Aaron Copland School of Music

  • Trained as pianist, vocalist, bassoonist, and conductor

  • Lives in Aberdeen, NJ with her husband Chaim and son Roni

Anecdotes

  • Was introduced to classical music through ballet as a small child by her mother; first ballet was Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker

  • Began piano studies at 4 and bassoon studies at 12

  • Played bassoon in the Children’s Orchestra Society and the Metropolitan Youth Orchestra of New York as a teen

  • Sang at the Vatican and in Italian cathedrals with her high school chamber choir

  • Began conducting choir, wind ensemble, and marching band as a high schooler at Manhasset High School in a suburb of New York City – school had 2 orchestras, 2 bands, and 4 choirs

  • Has worked as a tap instructor, stage manager, social media manager, web designer, and as a camp counselor in the Rocky Mountains

  • Fluent in Hebrew Cantillation

  • Enjoys accompanying on piano her friend’s renditions of Broadway tunes, jazz standards, billboard top 40, and of course, 90’s Disney hits