BIOGRAPHY

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Not long after my mother died, I sang a concert I had committed to months earlier. I wondered how it would be possible to sing at all.

But once the music began, something unexpected happened. The effort to perform fell away, and the music seemed to move through me rather than from me.

In that moment I realized something essential: music isn’t only about performance or skill. It’s about connection — the invisible thread that can link artist, listener, and something larger than both.

For many years, my life in music unfolded on the opera stage. As a mezzo-soprano I had the privilege of performing with extraordinary orchestras and opera companies around the world, including the Metropolitan Opera, Santa Fe Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the American Symphony Orchestra, and Carnegie Hall.

Opera taught me discipline, collaboration, and the profound emotional power of music. Yet alongside those experiences, another question gradually began to grow in me: what happens when creativity moves beyond performance and becomes something we explore together?

At one point in my career I nearly walked away from singing altogether. After years of training and professional success, I realized that much of what I had been taught about operatic singing was leading me away from something essential — authenticity. Relearning how to sing from a sense of grace rather than control became a turning point, not only for my voice but for my life.

Today my work lives at the intersection of music, creativity, and human aliveness. Through singing, writing, collaboration, and the development of immersive creative experiences, I explore how artistic expression can move from performance into participation — inviting people to rediscover their own creative voice.

This work is an unfolding inquiry — a lifelong exploration of how music, creativity, and shared experience can awaken and inspire our lives.

I live in Southwest US where the wide desert sky is a daily reminder that creativity, like music, begins with expanding one’s horizon.

Every day, I feel into that same profound moment on stage — discovering again and again what can happen when we allow authentic creative expression to move through us.