Academic Work

Degrees:

• Bachelor of Music - SUNY Fredonia (2022)

• Master of Music - Bowling Green State University (2025)

Teaching Experience:

• Private Lessons (Bassoon - 4 years)

• Pacific Music Institute Volunteer Bassoon Coach (2019)

• Teaching Assistant at Kaimuki Middle School (5 summer terms)

• Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for SUNY Fredonia (MUS 174: "Beginning Bassoon" Spring 2022 - Fall 2022)

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for BGSU (MUCT 1250: "Exploring Music of World Cultures" - Fall 2023 - Spring 2025)

Academic Work Experience:

• Graduate Student Supervisor - BGSU Music Library & Bill Schurk Sound Archives (2024 - 2025)

Paper Presentations:

• Midwest Graduate Music Consortium (University of Iowa - April 6-7, 2024)  - "Generations of Japanese Immigrants in Hawaii's Music Culture"

• New York Conference on Asian Studies (University at Buffalo - September 27-28, 2024) - "Fantasy of Takarazuka"

• Northeast Popular & American Culture Association (Nichols College - October 3-5, 2024) - "Hibari and Sakamoto As Healers: Popular Japanese Music Post-WWII"

• Midwest Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology (Northern Illinois University - April 11-12, 2025) - "The Yoo-Kuh-Lay-Lee"