About

I grew up as an Army Brat and a CK, a “Chaplain’s Kid.”  I started accompanying military chapel services regularly at the age of eleven at Fort Riley, Kansas. 

I have been an accompanist for several choirs, church services, instrumentalists, and opera singers. I’ve performed in concerts and Memorial Services across the United States, Germany, and the Philippines.

I’ve earned my Bachelor of Music Degree at Kansas State University, majoring in piano and minoring in violin, and studied piano with Dr. Robert Edwards, studied piano performance with Mr. Lazlo Lak at Biola University in La Mirada, CA, and studied piano technique with Dr. Elaine Brady.  I’m a composer, an arranger, and have maintained a private piano studio for over twenty years.  

A member and former District of Columbia Branch President of the National League of American Pen Women, I am on the Board of the Woodbridge Music Club, and the NLAPW National Board, an NFMC member, and an ASCAP member.  Vinnie Ream Award Winner, 3rd place in Music for the NLAPW in 2016. I am a regular pianist at local churches in Northern Virginia. I’ve performed at nursing homes across the United States for over 30 years. I have earned my Advanced Professional General Music Studies Certificate from Berklee School of Music in 2020.  I was selected to join the Veterans in Residence DC21A cohort, which is a six-month incubator entrepreneurship partnership with Bunker Labs and WeWork from January 2021 – June 2021. I provide music for Sage Stream, an online Senior Education & Entertainment Network. I am proficient in Finale and am learning Dorico to create sheet music. I am an orchestral pianist for the McLean Symphony, The Reston Community Orchestra, Opera Singers, and local churches. I’ve studied piano hymn arranging with Mark Hayes and Jazz piano with Sunnie Paxson. I’ve written original music for soprano, piano, and chorus performed by The Castaways Theatre in Prince William County. These songs were performed by Dr. Liana Valente, soprano and pianist, Jeanette Winsor. They performed my two songs to William Shakespeare’s poetry in his play, “As You Like It.” I. Under the Greenwood Tree and II. Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind on March 15, 2025 for the National Association of Composers USA Mid-Atlantic Concert in Virginia Beach, Virginia.

I enjoy spending time with my husband and three, adult children, gardening, cooking healthy meals, church activities, racial reconciliation, and walking outdoors.