Education
Bachelor of Music
- Oberlin College Conservatory of Music
Master of Music
- University of South Florida
Diploma, Piano Performance with Emphasis on Lieder and Chamber Music
- Hochschule für Musik, Frankfurt/Main
Doctor of Musical Arts
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Principal Teachers
- Jocelyn Sack Reiter
- Dorothy Neidlinger Murray
- James Ambrose
- Lydia Frumkin
- Jacques Abram
- Leonard Hokanson
- Hartmut Höll
- John Salmon
Master Classes
- Jon Nakamatsu
- Barbara Lister-Sink
- Jack Radunsky
Awards
- Florida West Coast Chopin Competition, 2nd prize, 1981
- Fulbright Grant for study in Germany, 1981
- Outstanding Dissertation Award, UNCG, 1995
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