Education
- Doctorate in Musical Arts in Piano Performance with a Jazz Emphasis
Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, August 2011
Dissertation Title: An Analysis of Selected Improvisations by Andrew Hill (1937-2007) and the Development of Progressive Jazz Piano, 1959-2005
Doctoral committee: John “Chip” Stephens (adviser, jazz), Gabriel Solis (musicology), Erik Lund (composition) and Tito Carrillo (jazz)
- Master’s in Music in Jazz Performance
Teaching Assistant
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 2006
- Graduate work in Jazz Studies
Teaching Assistant
University of Texas at Austin, 2003-2004
- Bachelor’s in Music in Commercial Music
Undergraduate Fellowship
Millikin University, Decatur, IL, May 2003
Certification
East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, New York, NY International Class - an immersion in Social Therapeutics, 2012-2013
Continuing Education/Study
- Creating the World, online course taught by Gwen Lowenheim and David Belmont - East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, New York, NY (November 2013)
- Developing Democracy, online course taught by Carrie Lobman, Cathy Stewart and Randy Wilson - East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, New York, NY (March 2013)
- Introduction to Social Therapeutics, online course taught by Carrie Lobman - East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy, New York, NY (Feb 2012)
- Vipassana Meditation, meditation retreats under tutelage of the Venerable Ashin Nyana Nanda - Chanmyay Sitipatthana Vihara, Springfield, IL (2011 to present)