In addition to my interests in meteorology, I also have a strong background in music and serve as a pianist, organist, and trumpet player. Please contact me for more information.
Education
- Minor in Piano Performance at Penn State University
- Private lessons:
- 12 years of piano lessons
- 3 years of organ lessons
- 8 years of trumpet lessons
Honors and Awards
- Invited to perform at Penn State School of Music honors piano recitals (link)
- Recipient of the Reading Musical Foundation’s Bruce B. Bengston Keyboard and Organ Scholarship
- Finalist in the Reading Symphony Orchestra League competition
Experience
- Piano Accompanist:
- Piano accompanist for several church choirs
- Piano accompanist for Penn State School of Music trumpet student
- Piano accompanist for Penn State University choir
- Piano accompanist for PMEA district choir
- Piano accompanist for Wilson High School choir
- Organ/Piano:
- Substitute organist and pianist for:
- St John’s Lutheran Church, Sinking Spring, PA
- West Lawn UMC, West Lawn, PA
- Zion Lutheran Church, Womelsdorf, PA
- Schwarzwald UCC, Reading, PA
- St Paul’s UCC, Robesonia, PA
- Interim organist and pianist for University Lutheran Church, Norman, OK
- Judge for the National Piano Guild Auditions
- Volunteered to perform piano concerts at local nursing homes
- Member of the American Guild of Organists
- Substitute organist and pianist for:
- Trumpet:
- Member of the Ringgold Band and Wyomissing Band, Reading, PA
- 1st trumpet in Penn State Marching Blue Band
- Member of Penn State symphonic band and campus orchestra
- Performed in PMEA All-State and NAfME All-National honor bands
