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