I am an opera and jazz singer, conductor, voice professor and all around sound lover! Music makes me happy. It has always been what touches me the most deeply. So I worked for decades to hone my craft of singing, playing the violin and piano, acting and conducting. I majored in music at Wesleyan University and got a Masters in Vocal Performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. 

As I performed and worked with my voice students on their operatic arias or jazz ballads, I realized the principles of singing and presenting a song are the very skills needed for any professional voice user. Speakers, team leaders, bosses, job applicants, sales people to name a few - you are singers of a kind. You are a musician with your voice! You compel, communicate, story tell, inspire, engage - all with your voice.

And given that, you want to have the best instrument you can have. Well that’s my passion and what I help you achieve! 

My qualifications:

25 years of performing professionally, directing over one dozen ensembles and organizing and mcing over 100 performances. I’ve performed Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Celtic, Musical Theater and Jazz repertoire, conducted at the San Francisco Conservatory, and sang with San Francisco’s modern choir Volti. In the Northwest I was featured in Harlequin Theatre Production’s “Elephant Man” and “Stardust Series”, recorded and toured with esteemed artist Scott Cossu, lead my own jazz octet at the Governor’s Inaugural Ball, sang with the award winning band Pearl Jango. For two years I had the honor of playing with Olympia's Erev Rav Klezmer Orchestra, voted 2013 Best Band of Olympia in the Weekly Volcano. Currently I run my own voice studio, am a professor of voice at South Puget Sound Community College and conduct The Evergreen Singers and Chamber Singers at the Evergreen State College.