I'm never more alive than when I am making music.

Here's a secret: singing FEELS GOOD (if you're doing it right) and it makes your head vibrate in a very pleasant way. I enjoy sharing that pleasure with my audience, and with my students.

I am a member of the music faculty at Holyoke Community College, (Holyoke, MA) where I teach jazz and contemporary voice lessons. I've also taught at Greenfield Community College. I've taken master classes with Jane Monheit, Karrin Allyson, Giacomo Gates. I co-presented a master class in jazz performance with guitarists John Stowell and Draa Hobbs.

I LOVE teaching. That moment when a student's eyes light up, and they suddenly "get" a new concept, or a new technique... that is pure magic for me!

A lifelong singer and flutist, my first music teacher played in the pit band at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Because of his careful training, I learned to balance technique with expression, and always to play or sing with musical intention.

Since those early days I've performed at Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, in a stone amphitheater in Austria, at jazz festivals and at hundreds of other venues large and small. Making music and performing is in my blood.