Professional Highlights

2020 Art of the Japanese Shakuhachi lecture recital for the National Flute Association, Summer Virtual Series

2015 Board member, Japan America Society of San Antonio, served as Secretary and President

2014 Chapters on Mexican American Conjunto, and Mexican American Popular Music for Connect4Education online


2012 Produced CD recording with Christine Debus, piano featuring works by Copland, Mozart, CPE Bach, and Borne

2012 Published article New Horizons: Women and the Japanese Shakuhachi in the Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies


2011 Featured lecturer and recitalist, Illinois College

2009 Who’s Who in America

2008 Southern Plains Chapter, Society for Ethnomusicology, Treasurer

2006 Hearst Grant Research Project Funding for research conducted in Honolulu, Hawaii, Sydney Australia.

2006 ”Best of 2006” performance, San Antonio Express News, with San Antonio Camerata for Migration by Elizabeth Brown (shakuhachi and string trio)


2004 Agnes M. Gloyna Award for Technological Innovation in Teaching and Learning, Our Lady of the Lake University

2004 World Shakuhachi Festival, New York City, Invited Performer and Panelist, Premiere of Plank, a theatrical piece

1999 College Music Society, International Meeting, Kyoto, Japan, Presenter, Mother and Child: Tsuru no Sugomori