2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition winner!

2009 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Pianist Competition winner! This means I'll be a headliner at next year's festival. New CD "Reflection" at itunes, cdbaby and digstation.com. I'm currently playing with Kendall Eddy, Austin McMahon, Ayn Inserto, Four Across, Susan Watts and Elaine Hoffman Watts, Frank London's Night in the Old Marketplace, and my own group. I sometimes play with Alicia Svigals, the Xylopholks, Lila Downs, the Prana Trio, Heather Masse, Mark Walker, and Victor Mendoza. I was a faculty member at Berklee College of Music in Boston for four years, teaching private piano lessons and keyboard labs as a member of the piano department.

Influences
Danilo Perez, Carl Staaf, Alisa Moshinsky, Scriabin, Erroll Garner, Bob Brookmeyer, Clarence Acox, Bob Knatt, Basie, Cubanismo, Cachao, Oscar Peterson, Don Lanphere, and Sonny Rollins.