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Head of Music Theory
Oclef, Inc. (2020–present)

Responsible for curriculum development, assessment design, software initiatives, teaching, composition, and faculty leadership.

Editor
8VA Music (2022–present)

Oversees publication of books and musical works by faculty and students through 8VA’s publishing program.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music & Accompaniment
Florida State University Dance Department (2021)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Music Theory
Florida State University College of Music (2018–2019)

Assistant Teaching Professor of Music Theory
University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory (2017–2018)

Wonders (2026)
12 preludes for piano and string orchestra.

Conducted premiere with students from Oclef, the SJ Youth Symphony, and PACO.

Heroes, Vol. 3 (2025)
12 musical portraits for piano and string orchestra.

Conducted premiere with students from Oclef, the SJ Youth Symphony, and Saratoga HS.

Immortals (2024–5)
12 mythological scenes for choir, piano, strings, and percussion.

Conducted premiere with students from Oclef, the SJ Youth Symphony, and members of the SJ Symphonic Chorale.

Heroes, Vol. 1 (2023–4)
12 musical portraits for piano and string orchestra.

Conducted premiere with students from Oclef and the SJ Youth Symphony.

Stage 1 Collection (2022–2023)
Pedagogical repertoire for developing pianists.

Orpheus (2026–)
Assessment platform for comprehensive keyboard musicianship.

Foundations (2024)
Integrated curriculum combining keyboard skills, notation, ear training, and music theory.

Oclef Theory (2021–2023)
Theory curriculum and assessment system (Levels 0–10).

Musicality (2020–2022)
Interactive curriculum for keyboard harmony, improvisation, performance, and repertoire analysis.

“‘Voluptuously Graceful’ or ‘Fatally Deranged’?: The Tarantella as 19th-century Topic” (2019)
Presented at:

• Music Theory Southeast, Elon, NC

“Danses Fantastiques:
Metrical Dissonance in the Ballet Music of P. I. Tchaikovsky” (2017)
Presented at:

• Society for Music Theory, Arlington, VA

“In the French Style: Metric Type and Embodied Meaning in Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty” (2015)
Presented at:

• Society for Music Theory, St. Louis, MO
• New England Conference of Music Theorists, Boston, MA
• Music Theory Southeast, Greenville, NC
• Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic, Princeton, NJ

Research Interests

• Rhythm and Meter
• Music and Dance
• Musical Meaning & Narrativity
• Approaches to Chromatic Harmony

Florida State University
Selected Courses:

• Aural Skills I
• Nineteenth-Century Styles
• Eighteenth-Century Counterpoint
• Classical Form and Style
• Music and Choreography

University of Missouri–Kansas City
Selected Courses:

• Musicianship I–IV
• Graduate seminar in Russian music

University of Texas at Austin
Selected Courses:

• Music Theory I–II
• Aural Skills I-IV

PhD, Music Theory
The University of Texas at Austin (2017)

MM, Music Theory
Florida State University (2011)

BM, Music Theory & Composition
Florida State University (2009)