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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