About

About me:

Born in New York City. Grew up in the green mountains of Nasu, Japan, and salty air of Olympia, Washington. Studied classical piano performance with Carol Crawford, Christopher Harding, and Ed Bedner. Her favorite repertoir includes Prokofiev Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op. 14; Saint-Seans Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22; and Mozart Piano Sonata in C, K.330, among many others. At some point, she expanded her studies to music composition, then to multi-media performance at Berklee College of Music (Bachelor of Music), Massachusetts Art College, School of Museum of Fine Arts, and Ermson College, Boston. Performances included video, acoustic and electronic music. She performed in Seattle, Olympia, Astoria, Boston, New York, Tokyo, and Nasu,with musicians including Gregory Reynold, Le Ton Mite (McCloud Zicmuse & Sam Lohman), Arrington de Dionyso, Bhob Rainey, dancer Corrie Befort, and others. 

 After graduation, her interest in video lead to Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) in New York, where she worked for five years. While continuing to make video and perform, she began a research in Japanese video art works from 1970s and the relation to American video and organized a touring screening program, Vital Signals, and a DVD publication (distributed through EAI and AmKY). 

 She is now working in the International Program at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, to assist with the museum's global research initiative., and is attending classes at CUNY Graduate Center with focus on Film Studies. She is also making music along the text of Djuna Barnes.