Highlights of Student & Alumni Accomplishments

GRANTS / AWARDS

  • Fulbright Grant (3 grants)

  • Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) Chicago Arts, Entrepreneurship and Urban Studies Program

  • Global Music Award and Annual Humanitarian Award

  • Piper Center Vocation and Career Internship Funding

  • Schubert Club Community Engagement Grant for Music Education project

ADMITTANCE TO GRADUATE MUSIC PROGRAMS

  • Manhattan School of Music

  • University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana

  • Indiana University

  • University of North Texas

  • Roosevelt University (Chicago)

  • Bowling Green State University (with Presidential Scholarship, Teaching Assistantship, and Stipend)

  • DePaul School of Music (with Scholarship)

  • University of Montana (with Graduate Teaching Assistantship)

  • Emory University

REGIONAL / NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES

  • Upper Midwest Flute Association Flute Fest Masterclasses with Denis Bouriakov, Sarah Jackson, Jonathan Keeble and Mark Sparks

  • Eight Senior Soloists with the St. Olaf Orchestra

  • Six other Tour Soloists with the St. Olaf Orchestra, St. Olaf Band, and St. Olaf Norseman Band

  • One piccolo Tour Soloist with St. Olaf Band

SUMMER FESTIVALS

  • Aria International Summer Academy

  • Birch Creek Summer Music Camp Symphony

  • Marina Piccinini Summer Masterclass at the New World Symphony

  • Miami Music Festival

  • Norsk Fløytefestival and Sommerakademi Voskenåsen Flute classes in Norway

  • Sewanee Summer Music Festival

ORCHESTRAS / ENSEMBLES

  • Berlin Youth Symphony of Germany (flutist)

  • Billings Symphony (3rd flute/picc)

  • Bozeman Opera (2nd flute)

  • Chicago Youth Symphony

  • Duluth Superior Symphony (sub list)

  • InfraSound (flutist and artistic director)

  • Minnesota Opera (sub list)

  • New Mexico Philharmonic (Assistant Principal)

  • West Virginia Symphony (2nd Flute)

  • Soloist with Rochester Symphony (MN)

  • Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble