CURRICULUM VITAE

EMPLOYMENT

2008 -                      Assistant Professor of Piano, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, TX

2006 - 2008             Assistant Instructor, The University of Texas at Austin, TX. Group piano and individual

piano instruction.

1992-2006               Full-time music instructor, City of Aschaffenburg Music School, Aschaffenburg, Germany.

                                Teaching 28 hours of piano, music theory classes (harmony I and II, aural skills), college

preparation, gifted and talented and chamber music to students ages 5-22.

1990-1992               Graduate Assistant, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX. Piano

instruction, piano technology.

1988-1990               Assistant Instructor, Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Freiburg i. Br., Germany. Music

                                theory and aural skills

MUSICAL EDUCATION

2008                        DMA piano performance, University of Texas at Austin. Principal teacher: Nancy Garrett

1992                        MM, piano performance, Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX.

                                Principal Teacher: John Perry

1991                        Music pedagogy diploma for music theory (MM). Staatliche Hochschule für Musik

                                Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Principal Teacher: Peter Förtig

1990                        Music pedagogy diploma for piano performance and piano pedagogy (MM),

Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Freiburg i.Br., Germany. Principal Teacher: Robert Levin

SELECTED PEDAGOGICAL PROJECTS

2005–2006              Created Schumann, Mozart, Shostakovich anniversary concert and lecture recital series

                                project, Staedtische Musikschule, Aschaffenburg

2005–2006              Collaborated with the Institute for the Exceptionally Gifted at the Musikhochschule

                                Würzburg, Germany
Jan-May 2005         German national music competition “Jugend musiziert“, solo piano category. National,

                                state and regional level prizes for nine out of nine participating students.
July 2004                 Development of recital series featuring the complete first book of Bach’s “Well-Tempered

Clavier“ performed by my piano students. Fundraiser for a charity sponsoring homeless

children of Rio de Janeiro in conjunction with the Aschaffenburg Bach Society.

Jan 2003                 German national music competition “Jugend musiziert“, piano-duet category. Four

                                regional level prizes out of four participating piano duos.
July 2002                 Recital series performed by my students featuring all of Bach’s two- and three-part

                                Inventions. Fundraiser for the St. Lukas congregation, Aschaffenburg, Germany.
1992-2006               Ca. 10 studio recitals per year, featuring solo and chamber music performances by my

                                students
1992-2006               Creation, organization of and involvement in numerous projects by the school and the

                                Association of German Music Schools

SELECTED CONCERT-STAGE PERFORMANCES (2001-2009)

2009                  accompanist, ca. 25 senior recitals, student recitals, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

2009                  ca. 10 accompaniments for different High School choirs from Seguin, San Marcos,

                                Calallen, Orange Grove, et al.

Nov. 2009          TMEA/UIL Region 12 High School Mixed Choir, San Antonio, TX, Eduardo Garcia-

                                Novelli, conductor

Oct. 2009           Concert with the combined San Marcos CISD choirs, San Marcos, TX

Sept. 2009         Faculty recital with Naomi Seidman, flute, Jim Warth, Saxophone, Texas A&M University, Kingsville 

July 2009           Concert and recording with the All-State-Preparatory Camp, Texas State University, San

                                Marcos

March 2009       Guest Artist recital with Francois Minaux, flute, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

March 2009       Mixed faculty recital, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Feb. 2009          Guest Artist recital with Naomi Setzer, flute, Texas A&M University, Kingsville

Nov. 2008          Lecture recital: “Tonal relationships in Chopin’s Polonaise-Fantaisie, op. 61, as viewed

                                through Riemann’s dualist lens”, Texas A&M University, Kingsville, and UT Austin

Nov. 2008          Chamber recital for TAMUK French Club, Texas A&M Kingsville

Nov. 2008          TMEA/UIL Region 12 High School Mixed Choir, Denise Eaton, conductor

Oct. 2008           Recital with Tuba Soloist Oystein Baadsvik, Texas A&M Kingsville

Sept. 2008         Recital with Tuba Soloist Keith Robinson, Texas A&M Kingsville

July 2008           Concert with the All-State-Preparatory Choral Camp, Texas State University, San Marcos

April 2008          Solo recital with works by Bach, Mozart, Schumann, Schoenberg and Beethoven, UT

                                Austin

Jan. 2008          Perfomance in lecture recital “Frank Bridge: The Sonata for Cello and Piano.” Victoria

                                Wolff, Cellist, UT Austin

Oct. 2007           Schumann Piano concerto with the Starlight Symphony Orchestra in Austin and

                                Wimberley, conductor Cina Cisara

Sept. 2007         Solo piano recital with works by Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Schoenberg and

                                Brahms, UT Austin and Texas State University, San Marcos

July. 2007          Solo piano recital with works by Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Schoenberg and

                                Brahms, Staedtische Musikschule Aschaffenburg, Germany

July 2007           Duo recital with Victoria Wolff, Violoncello, works by Bach, Webern and Chopin (Sonata

                                in G minor), UT Austin

Oct. 2006           Mozart Piano Concerto KV 488 with the Orchestra of Aschaffenburg County, conductor,

                                Heinz-Peter Rausch

Oct. 2005           Lecture Recital: “Identity in Chopin’s music”. Convention of Neurology and Psychology,

                                Bad Nauheim

2001-2005         Several Concert tours with composer and flutist Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen: Germany,

                                Switzerland, Austria, Spain, total of more than 100 concerts

May 2005          Chamber concert, Oberursel (Brahms: Piano quintet)

July 2004           Live recording by North German Radio of a lecture recital with piano solo works by Berg,

                                Schoenberg, Brahms, Schumann and Adorno in Oldenburg, Horst-Jansen-Museum, in

                                association with the University of Oldenburg

Mar. 2004          Schubert: “Winterreise” with Stefan Claas, Baritone, Oberursel and Aschaffenburg

Oct. 2003           Lecture recital: “Identity in Music”, Convention of Neurology and Psychology, Bad

                                Nauheim. Works by Bach, Berg, Schumann

Sept. 2003         Concert with works by Adorno, Berg, Schönberg in Frankfurt, in association with the

                                German Adorno Society, Frankfurt

1992-2007         Yearly solo recitals at the City of Aschaffenburg Music school, and regular solo

                                performances in Germany. For performed works please see repertoire list

CD PRODUCTIONS

2003-2005               Recorded 6 CD’s as studio musician with composer and flutist Hans-Jürgen Hufeisen,

                                distributed Europe-wide (Publishers: Neunkirchener Verlagshaus, Kreutz Verlag,

Stuttgart, Eschbach Verlag, Freiburg), over 30.000 sold.

2003                        Directed, budgeted and produced the CD Project “An Organ for St. Jacob“, recording

                                works by Strauss, Adorno, Mozart and Kern with 13 different soloists (over 1200 copies                                  sold).

1998                        Produced and recorded CD of the “Moments Musicaux“ by Schubert and the “Handel

                                Variations“ by Brahms (ca. 500 sold in two years).

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2008                        Outstanding Doctoral Lecture Recital, UT Austin

1990                        Willoughby C. Williams merit award: full tuition scholarship for the two-year Master’s

program at the Shepherd School of Music, Rice University, Houston, TX

1988                        Full tuition scholarship to the Sarasota Music Festival, Sarasota, Florida

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND VOLUNTEER WORK

2002-2006               Position of faculty counselor and mediator at the City of Aschaffenburg Music School,

                                reelected for four consecutive years by unanimous vote of the faculty

2000-2006               Church board, St. Lukas congregation, Aschaffenburg

2000-2006               Creator and Artistic Director of “KUKUK- Kunst und Kultur in der Kirche”, Aschaffenburg,

concert and lecture series

LIST OF PERFORMED REPERTOIRE

Solo piano Works by William Byrd, J. S. Bach, Joseph Haydn, W.A. Mozart, Ludwig v. Beethoven,
Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Gabriel Fauré,
Claude Debussy, Arnold Schönberg, Igor Stravinsky, Alban Berg, Paul Hindemith, George
Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Theodor W. Adorno

Piano concertos by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann

Chamber Works by Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Chopin, Brahms, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, Berg, Webern, Hindemith, Dutilleux, Bridge, Martinu, Martin, Poulenc, et al.

Art Songs Songs by Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert (Winterreise), Schumann (Dichterliebe), Brahms, Fauré, Duparc, Schoenberg, Berg, Poulenc, Barber, Bernstein, et al.

REFERENCES

available upon request