School of Music
College of Performing and Visual Arts
Doctor of Arts, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, Music History and Literature with Secondary in Music Technology
Master of Music, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO, Vocal Performance and Pedagogy
Bachelor of Arts, Mesa College, Grand Junction, CO, Visual & Performing Arts, Primary Emphasis: Music; Secondary Emphasis: Dance
Fall 2013 – Present Assistant Professor
School of Music, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
1997- Spring 2013 Adjunct Instructor
School of Music University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO
Nineteenth-century Musical Styles
Narrative studies in Nineteenth-Century Music
Musical styles in film
Opera and Shakespeare
“The Topical Vocabulary of the Nineteenth Century.” Journal of Musicological Research XXXI/2-3 (April-September 2012), 97-137.
Presentation for UNC students, faculty, and Greeley community – The Music of Middle
Earth: Howard Shore’s Music for the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, (April 8, 2016,
Frasier Hall, University of Northern Colorado)
SMT Regional Conference – The Growth of Narrative Analysis and its Implications for
Pedagogy, (April 22-23, 2016, Albuquerque, NM)
Texas Society for Music Theory Conference (Regional), Novelistic Analysis: A Reading
of Brahms’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor, (March 1-2, 2013, Denton, TX)
CMEA State Conference, Looking for the Forest: Providing an Aerial View of Western
Culture in Music History Courses,(January 29, 2011, Colorado Springs, Colorado)
2011, UNC, First Year Scholar’s Outstanding Faculty
2010, UNC, McNair, Mentor of Best Research Paper Award Winner
2008, UNC, First Year Scholar’s Outstanding Faculty