“Since 2006, teaching adults and children in Southwest Michigan the many techniques and styles I have learned in my education, performance and travels has been a unique joy for me. Improving techniques, abilities and performances through their hard work in lessons, getting to know their families, and seeing many of them go on to even greater heights at the collegiate level and beyond really encompasses so much of what I love about the art form of singing, as well as what community and performance can do in tandem to round out one’s experience right here at home. I owe so much of my own teaching to my past pedagogues and coaches, it is truly my honor and, I feel, my duty to pay forward that teaching and continue to watch others embrace and pass it on someday.”