Professional Highlights

2020    Art of the Shakuhachi lecture-recital for the National Flute Association Virtual Summer Series 

2018    Concert and Lecture-Recital, Breath, Sound and Zenga, Trinity University Music Department 

2016    Breath on Calligraphy Lecture-Recital on Shakuhachi, with Musical Offerings Chamber Ensemble, San Antonio Museum of Art

2015    Board member, Japan America Society of San Antonio (President) 

2012    Published New Horizons: Women and the Japanese Shakuhachi in Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies 

2011    Featured lecturer and recitalist, Illinois College

2009    Who’s Who in America

2008    Treasurer, Southern Plains Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology

2008    Hearst Grant Conference Presentation Funding for World Shakuhachi Festival, 2008 in Sydney, Australia 

2006    Hearst Grant Research Project Funding conducted in Honolulu  

2006    ”Best of 2006” performance, San Antonio Express News, with San Antonio Camerata for Migration by Elizabeth Brown (shakuhachi and string trio) 

2004      Agnes M. Gloyna Award for Technological Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Our Lady of the Lake University

2004    World Shakuhachi Festival, New York City, Invited Performer and Panelist, Premiere of Plank, a theatrical piece for solo shakuhachi

2004    Japanese Consulate, Houston, Texas, Invited Lecturer on Japanese Shamisen

2003    48th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Miami, FL, Presenter, A Virtual Museum: The Graciela Gutierrez World Instrument Collection

1999    College Music Society, International Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, Presenter, Mother and Child: Tsuru no Sugomori and Tenderness of Cranes