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)

• Ukulele Instructor at Central Music Academy in Lexington, KY (2026)

• 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)

• Graduate Teaching Assistant for the University of Kentucky (MUS 100: "Introduction to Music" | Fall 2025 - Spring 2026)

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"

• American Musical Instrument Society (National Music Museum in Vermillion, SD | May 27-31, 2026) "America's Toy Ukulele"