I hold dual undergraduate degrees in piano performance and music theory, a doctorate in composition from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and a masters degree in performance with an improvisation emphasis from Mills College in California, where I won the Flora Boyd Piano Performance Prize in 2011.  I have studied piano with Richard Veleta, Pavlina Radoslavova and Robert Schwartz; improvisation with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell and Zeena Parkins; and composition with Robert Maggio, Jay Reise, James Primosch and Anna Weesner.

My performance projects have included developing a programme of music by 20th-century American innovators (John Cage, Henry Cowell, George Crumb, Philip Glass, Morton Feldman, Alvin Curran) as well as a programme of the music of Erik Satie featuring Dadaist film, readings and dance.  I perform this programme as one half of the piano duo 4Hands with Elie Fruchter.  We have also developed a programme of early French modernist music (Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Darius Milhaud) played with early French modernist film.  We premiered this programme at High Cross House as part of the Totnes Festival in August 2012.