Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
August 2021
PhD in Historical Musicology, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Dissertation: “Central Europe in Text: Music, Aesthetics, and Literary Discourse in the 20th Century”
Chair: James R. Currie; Readers: Stephanie Vander Wel, Brian Moseley
May 2017
M.M. in Piano Performance, University at Buffalo (SUNY)
Student of Eric Huebner
May 2011
B.A. in Music, University of Pittsburgh, College of Arts and Sciences, magna cum laude with honors in music
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Piano teacher at Master Piano Institute (Sydney, Australia)
Visiting Assistant Professor of Historical Musicology, University at Buffalo Department of Music
Private piano and violin instructor, Matt's Music, Inc. (North Tonawanda, New York)
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS
2021-22
Fulbright U.S. Student Program Research Grantee, postdoctoral research at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary
2017-2018
University at Buffalo Humanities Institute Advanced PhD Fellow
2012-2016
University at Buffalo Presidential Fellowship
PUBLICATIONS
Program note for performance of Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 (Einojuhani Rautavaara), New York Philharmonic, with Yuja Wang (soloist) and Thomas Ades (conductor), January 2026
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Program note for US premiere of Let There Be Light (Bohdana Frolyak), New York Philharmonic, with Dalia Stasevska (conductor), November 2025
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Program note for US premiere of Neharot (Matthias Pintscher), New York Philharmonic, with Matthias Pintscher (conductor), October 2024
Program note for US premiere of Mifiso la sodo (György Ligeti), New York Philharmonic, with David Robertson (conductor), October 2023
Central Europe in Text: Music, Aesthetics, and Literary Discourse in the 20th Century. 2021. University at Buffalo, PhD dissertation.
Liner Notes for György Ligeti, Désordre, Eric Huebner, Yuki Numata Resnick, and Adam Unsworth, recorded 2019, New Focus Recordings, fcr269, 2020
RECORDINGS
PLAY, album recorded with Wooden Cities ensemble, Infrasonic Press, 2022
WORK, album recorded with Wooden Cities ensemble, Infrasonic Press, 2019
Pianist in soundtrack for the documentary film, Live your Art (2020), directed by Mani Mehrvarz and produced in collaboration with Bronwyn Keenan and the UB Arts Collaboratory
Interview subject and pianist in the documentary film, Work (2020), directed by Mani Mehrvarz
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Primary Instructor, University at Buffalo
MUS500: Graduate Colloquium II [Spring 2024]
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MUS408: Special Topics – Music and Nationalism [Spring 2024]
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MUS500: Graduate Colloquium I [Fall 2023]
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MUS408: Special Topics – Listening: Theories, Practices, and Contexts [Fall 2023]
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MUS115: Understanding Music: Summer 2019 [online], Summer 2018 [online], Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014, Spring 2014, Fall 2013
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MUS114: Outsider Music: Winter 2017 [online]
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MUS114: The Merits and Dangers of Elevator Music: Summer 2016 [online]
Primary Instructor, Trocaire College
MUS101: Music Appreciation: Fall 2015
Guest Lecturer, University at Buffalo
MUS515: Graduate Seminar on String Quartets (Dr. James Currie): Spring 2020
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MUS109: The Music of Beethoven: Spring 2018, Spring 2017
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MUS199: Twentieth-Century Piano Literature: Fall 2017, Fall 2018
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MUS 408: Music/Comedy/Modernism: Fall 2017
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MUS515: Graduate Seminar on Music and Comic Modernity (Dr. James Currie): Fall 2015
PRESENTATIONS
“The Functions of Transcription in György Ligeti’s ‘Magyar Etüdök.’” Presented as part of the Department of Musicology Lecture Series at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary, November 2021
“A Conceptual History of ‘Classical Music for Relaxation.’” Public lecture hosted by the University at Buffalo Music Department, April 2016
“Works Without Notation: The Social and Aesthetic Aims of Budapest’s ‘Free Music’ Community.” Notation Study Group Inaugural Panel Session, American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, November 2022
“Living within the Truth - Strategies of Formal Dissent in LutosÅ‚awski's Late Period.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, November 2017
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Presented at the Brandeis Musicology Graduate Student Conference, May 2017
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“LutosÅ‚awski’s ‘Chain 3’: A Late Style Response to Institutional Authority.” University of Pittsburgh Graduate Student Music Conference, February 2017
“Meaningless Mechanized Situations of Disrelation: Ligeti’s ‘Poéme Symphonique’ as a Comic Rendering of Modernity.” American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, November 2015
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Presented at the University at Buffalo Graduate Music Symposium, March 2014
“Paralytic Modernity: The formal function of micropolyphony in Ligeti’s ‘Le Grand Macabre.’” University at Buffalo Graduate Music Symposium, March 2015
“Ideological Spaces: Warsaw’s Old Town and PaweÅ‚ SzymaÅ„ski’s Surconventional (Re)Turn.” McGill Music Graduate Symposium, March 2014
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
June in Buffalo 2025, with James Baker (conductor)
we are all burning in the fire (Nan Yi)
Hear My Voice (Kyujung Lim)
Teared Morpho Cyrpis (Jianing Yang)
Bridges to Ruth (Karola Obermüller)
“Gift to the Community” Concert, with Jaman E. Dunn-Danger (conductor), May 4, 2025
Consort Piece for Septet (Adolphus Hailstork)
June in Buffalo 2024, with James Baker (conductor)
Perseverance (Ian Y. Chung)
Cast a Giant Spell (Alon Nechushtan)
Shadow Pulses (David Vess)
Sojourn (Will Brobston)
Slee Sinfonietta: “Pan-Americana”, with Christian Baldini (conductor)
Libres en el sonido presos en el sonido (Graciela Paraskevaídis)
Amarrada al recuerdo 2 (Nora Ponte)
Folding Space (Christian Baldini)
Ecosystem (Gabriel Bolańos)
June in Buffalo 2023, with Daniel Brottman (conductor)
reflected tides (Paul Novak)
all those who live in such times (Benjamin Rieke)
Garden of Dawn (Stephen Yip)
The Ostrich (Simon Cheek)
Three Body Problem (Joachim Austin)
June in Buffalo 2023 – “Soloists of the Slee Sinfonietta”
Zerstreutes Hinausschauen (Tomasz Sikorski)
“…és még egy level Eötvös Péternek…” (György Kurtág)
Erdenklavier—Himmelklavier (Péter Eötvös)
Dances of the Brush-Footed Butterfly (P. Eötvös)
“Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, mvt. I (Béla Bartók, transcribed for piano duet by György Kurtág) with Haeyeun Jeun
Chamber Musicians of the Slee Sinfonietta/Robert Phillips Tribute, May 2023
What Instruments We Have Agree (Eric Moe)
Just Listen (Robert Carl)
“Fulbright Artist Showcase” at the Liszt Academy of Music, Budapest, Hungary, December 2021
“…és még egy level Eötvös Péternek…” (György Kurtág)
“Erdenklavier – Himmelklavier (in memoriam Luciano Berio) (Péter Eötvös)
“Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta, mvt. I (Béla Bartók, transcribed for piano duet by György Kurtág), with Ketty Nez
Wooden Cities contemporary music ensemble at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, August 2021
Works by Anthony Braxton
Wooden Cities at The CASS Project, April 2018
The Price of Oil (Frederic Rzewski)
Stay On It (Julius Eastman)
“Women in the Electronic Arts” with Wooden Cities, as part of a two-day residency at Buffalo State College, April 2017
Jardin Secret II, for harpsichord and fixed electronics (Kaija Saariaho)
Performance on harmonium with the Slee Sinfonietta and Robert Treviño (conductor), April 2017
Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune (Claude Debussy/ arr. by Arnold Schoenberg)
Lied von der Erde (Gustav Mahler/ arr. by A. Schoenberg)
Master’s Recital, Baird Recital Hall, February 2017
Etudes, Op. 10, no. 3 and Op. 25, no. 5 (Frederic Chopin)
Mazurka (C. Debussy)
Embryons desséchés (Erik Satie)
Fantaisie in F minor, Op. 49 (F. Chopin)
Zerstreutes Hinausschauen (Tomasz Sikorski)
Grave, for piano and cello (Witold Lutosławski), with Katie Weissman
Epitafium, for two pianos (Paweł Szymański), with Jade Conlee
Wooden Cities at the Houghton College Center for the Arts – a concert of improvisatory works, February 2017
in the beginning was the word (Ethan Hayden)
In Memoriam Brooks Frederickson (Zane Merritt)
Cobra (John Zorn)
"Time May" from Tombstones (Michael Pisaro)
Antiphonal Meditation (Pauline Oliveros)
Stay On It (J. Eastman)
Two-day workshop with Wooden Cities at Starlight Studio and Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, December 2016
Starlight Studio provides resources, assistance, and working space to artists with disabilities. During this workshop, our ensemble worked closely with artist participants to create graphic scores using non-traditional means of visual notation. The workshop culminated with an evening performance of all twenty-one scores.
A Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones with Wooden Cities and Pia Lindman at Kleinhans Music Hall, October 2015
The premiere of a concert-length performance piece produced in collaboration with the Finnish performance artist, Pia Lindman, as part of Finn Fest 2015.
June in Buffalo Performance Institute, June 2015
Performance with the New York New Music Ensemble (participant works)
Five Pianos (Morton Feldman) and Six Pianos (Steve Reich)
Passion Prayers (Augusta Read Thomas) at Kleinhans Music Hall
“Ives and Beyond” – A performance with the Slee Sinfonietta and Brad Lubman (conductor) as part of the “Charles Ives: An American Maverick” Festival, April 2015
Piece No. 2 for small orchestra (Conlon Nancarrow)
Vox Clamans in Deserto, for soprano and chamber orchestra (Carl Ruggles)
A/V Imbroglio: Redux – Archive Clips and Live Performances at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, October 2014
A 40th anniversary event celebrating the legacy of Hallwalls and featuring performances by artists including Tony Conrad and Karen Finley. Invited to perform a set of tangos commissioned by the pianist, Yvar Mikhashoff.
Master’s Recital in Lippes Concert Hall in Slee Hall, April 2014
Sonatine (Maurice Ravel)
Sonata in F Major, Hoboken XVI; 23 (Joseph Haydn)
Menuet Sur Le Nom D’Haydn (M. Ravel)
Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky, version for two pianos) with Eric Huebner
Virginia Wesleyan University Concert Series “Young Artist Spotlight” Solo Recital, March 2013
Ballade in A-flat Major, no. 3 (Frederic Chopin)
Klavierstuck IX (Karlheinz Stockhausen)
Piano Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
University at Buffalo “Keyboard Extravaganza Weekend,” February 2013
Rite of Spring (Igor Stravinsky, version for two pianos) with Eric Huebner
SERVICE
Departmental Service at the University at Buffalo
Secretary of the UB Graduate Poetics Club: Fall 2016-Spring 2017
President of the UB Music Graduate Student Association: Fall 2014-Spring 2015 and Fall 2016-Spring 2017
Vice-president of Music Graduate Student Association: Fall 2015-Spring2016
Organizer of the 2015 Graduate Music Symposium at the University at Buffalo (March 21 and 22, 2015), with keynote speaker Dr. Janet Schmalfeldt (Tufts University)