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Cello Performance and Teaching Resumé
EDUCATION
University of Maryland, M.M. Cello Performance
Primary teacher: Eric Kutz
University of Maryland, B.M. Cello Performance
ORCHESTRA
Mid-Atlantic Symphony Orchestra (section cellist) 2019 – present
Great Falls Philharmonic (section cellist) 2023 – present
Annapolis Chamber Orchestra (section cellist) 2023 – present
Alexandria Symphony Orchestra (substitute cellist) 2023 – present
Signature Theater, Ragtime (substitute cellist) 2024
Annapolis Symphony Orchestra (substitute cellist) 2022 – present
Arlington Philharmonic (substitute cellist) 2022 – present
University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra 2015 – 2021
Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C. (Durufle’s Requiem) 2018
National Orchestral Institute 2018
National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute 2017
Brevard Music Center Summer Festival 2016
CHAMBER MUSIC
Classical Night at 49 West, Annapolis 2018 - present
Clarinet Academy of America 2023
Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet, K 581
Weber’s Clarinet Quintet, Op. 34
Faculty member at ArtsAhimsa Chamber Music Festival 2022
Arts Club of Washington
Dora Pejačević’s Piano Trio Op. 29 2024
Beethoven’s Archduke Trio Op 97 2023
Arco Strings program 2021
Tania León string quartet 2019
Church of the Resurrection (Baltimore) Recital Series 2021
Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 66 by Felix Mendelssohn
Piatigorsky International Cello Festival 2020
Mass Cello Ensemble (canceled due to COVID19)
National Orchestral Institute 2018
Chamber coachings with Paul Arnold (Philadelphia Orchestra)
Collaboration with wild Up modern music collective 2018
National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute 2017
Chamber coachings with Jennifer Mondie
Brevard Music Center 2016
Quartet coachings with Benjamin Sung and Shanghai Quartet
University of Maryland 2015-2021
Chamber coachings with Eric Kutz, Laura Colgate, Irina Muresanu, James Stern, and Rita Sloan
TEACHING
McCarthy Cello Studio 2016 – present
Cello teacher for Bishop McNamara High School 2021 – 2023
Cello teacher for DeMatha Catholic High School 2021 – 2023
Creation and performance of educational assemblies for College Park Academy students 2020 – 2021
Cello sectional leader and mentor for Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra 2020 – 2021
Pedagogy training at UMD with Rebecca Henry and Bai-Chi Chen 2018 – 2021
TEACHERS
Cello
Eric Kutz
Daniel Shomper
Felix Wang
Rachel Young
Master Classes
Shanghai Quartet
Andrew Shulman
Hai-Ye Ni
Astrid Schween
Chamber Music
Laura Colgate
Irina Muresanu
Benjamin Sung
James Stern
Jennifer Mondie
Rita Sloan