Teaching

I'm interested in helping students understand why music is the way that it is, and what that means for what it could be.

I've taught music history at Baldwin Wallace and Case Western Reserve and directed the CWRU Collegium Musicum. Before getting into musicology, I taught college-level biology and led the chamber ensemble at Bard High School Early College in Manhattan.

Cantigas!, CWRU Collegium Musicum with Shira Kammen, March 2024

Past

2026

Spring 2026Technologies of Music (MUA 340) — instructor, Baldwin Wallace ConservatorySound recording, medieval notation, and music and machines, one book each.
Spring 2026American Popular Music, 1865–1965 (MUL 226) — instructor, Baldwin Wallace ConservatoryFrom spirituals and Tin Pan Alley to soul and rock and roll.

2025

Spring & Fall 2025Introduction to Music: The Listening Experience (MUGN 201) — instructor, Case Western Reserve UniversityInstructor of record, Spring 2025; lecturer, Fall 2025.

2024

2023–2024CWRU Collegium Musicum — director, Case Western Reserve University performingThree programs, including Cantigas! with guest director Shira Kammen.

2022

Nov 20Johann Christoph Bach: Meine Freunde, du bist Schön — director, violin, Case Western Reserve University performing

2020

2016–2020College biology at Bard High School Early College — assistant professor, Bard High School Early College, ManhattanIntroductory biology, genetics, and biotechnology, with labs.

2019

2017–2019BHSEC Chamber Ensemble — director, Bard High School Early College, Manhattan performingPeriod bows, Schoenberg with student choreography, and student premieres.
2016–2019Suzuki violin — teacher, Music Conservatory of Westchester, White Plains, NY

2017

2014–2017Violin and chamber music faculty — Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival, Cedar Rapids, IA