Professional experience:

Music Director

It’s All True

SMU (Dallas, TX) Theater Production

Fall 2003

Pianist

Love’s Fire

SMU (Dallas, TX) Theater Production

Fall 2003

Music Director

Boomerangst

SMU (Dallas, TX) Theater Production

Spring 2003

Choir Accompanist

Midlothian High School

Midlothian, TX

2002-

Pianist

Once Upon A Mattress

Midlothian HS, TX  

Fall 2002

Music Director

Anything Goes

SMU (Dallas, TX) Theatre Production 

Spring 2002

Music Director

Musical Theater Classes

SMU (Dallas, TX) Community Education

2002-

Assistant Music Director

Musical Theater Classes

SMU (Dallas, TX) Community Education

1997-2002

Choir Accompanist

Hillcrest High School, Ben Franklin Middle School, Staley MS

  Ted Polk Middle School, Midlothian Middle School   Dallas, TX

2001-

Pianist/Associate Music Director

Broadway Theatre Project (Anne Reinking, Director)

Tampa, FL

1997,2000-2003

Vocal Studio Accompanist

Pam Glaros

Hockaday School, Dallas, TX

1998 -2002

Piano Soloist

Schumann: Piano Concerto

Tampa (FL) Bay Symphony Orchestra

1996

Pianist/Choral Director

Unity Church of Today

Tampa, FL

1995-1996

Other experience:

Pianist

Volunteer concerts

Signature Point Nursing Home (Dallas, TX), Hudson Manor Nursing Home (Tampa, FL)

2002,

1992-1996

Student Representative

For the Piano Department

SMU (Dallas, TX)

1998-2002

Stage Manager

Musical Theater Productions

Tampa, FL

1992-1996

Honors and Awards:

Honorary Membership:  Mu Phi Epsilon (Dallas, TX) (1999); Secretary of the Mu Chi Chapter, 1999-2000

Awards presented at SMU honors ceremonies:  Two Arts Club Scholarship (1999), Van Katwijk Award (1998)

Scholarship:  Jesse May Caruthers (Tampa, FL) (1996,1999), Meadows General Award (SMU, Dallas, TX) (1997)

Nicol Piano Scholarship Award (SMU, Dallas, TX) (1996)

Dow Sherwood Community Service Award, (Tampa, FL) (1996)

Education and Training:

M.M. in Piano Performance

2002

Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)

B.M. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy

2000

Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX)

HS Diploma

1996

Tampa Preparatory High School (Tampa, FL)

Music HS Diploma

1992

Josip Slavenski Music High School (Belgrade, Yugoslavia)

Music Elementary Diploma

1990

Josip Slavenski Music Elementary School (Belgade, Yugoslavia)

Piano teachers:

Alfred Mouledous (1996 - ); Judith Edberg, Vladimir Khokhlov (1992-96); Gordana Izrailjevic, Zlata Poparic, Ivanka Stefanov, Arbo Valdma (1980-1992)

Master classes: 

with Joaquin Achucarro (SMU, Dallas, TX) (2000, 2001); at the New Arts Festival (Chamber Music)

(Ft. Myers, FL) (1993).

Related skills/personal background:

§         fluent in Serbo-Croatian; comprehension of spoken Bulgarian

§         knowledge of Italian, Spanish, and German diction for singers

I was born (in 1977) in Chicago, Illinois, and lived in Belgrade, Yugoslavia from 1977 until 1992, when my parents moved to Florida.