Since I was 2 years old, I’ve been a self-taught visual artist and developed a particular interest for textures, shapes, and color.  I began my musical journey at age 4 and took piano lessons for 11 years under 5 different teachers. I picked up the violin for about 3 years before switching to cello at age 10, which I immediately fell in love with and have been learning for the past 12 years. My inspiration for cello came from my grandmother, who was a music professor at the Olivet College Conservatory in Michigan. There, she taught cello, piano, theory, and composition. In her honor, I regularly perform on her cello.

Before college, I had attended several music camps such as Interlochen School of the Arts, Sewanee Summer Music Festival, and Cadenza Academy of San Antonio (CASA String Quartet). I’ve gotten the opportunity to travel and perform in Prague, Vienna, Gyor, and Budapest. I have also performed alongside the San Antonio Symphony, in the Youth Orchestras of San Antonio, as well as in the Meadows Symphony Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Jazz Orchestra. I have had experience as a freelance private teacher and gigging musician for commercial, wedding, event, and church work as well. Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of studying under Kenneth Freudigman, the principal of the San Antonio Symphony, and Andrés Díaz.

Other than practicing cello and piano, I enjoy spending most of my time composing music in Finale and Logic Pro X. I didn’t know it while I was younger, but I realized in my freshman year of college that I had a unique neurodivergence called synesthesia, which is a complex blending of all 5 bodily senses. Ever since then, I have experimented with interdisciplinary arts, composing pieces based off my own visual art, studying under Dr. Xi Wang and Dr. Lane Harder. Now that I am about to receive my Bachelor of Music in Cello Performance and Composition from the Meadows School of the Arts, I hope to study  and write music for film and more interdisciplinary art at a graduate level, and possibly pursue a doctorate in psychology, in addition to freelance cello performance.