I am jazz vocalist and pianist with twenty years of professional
playing experience. I graduated from the Dick Grove School of Music
in LA, and then got a BM in Jazz Studies (piano) from Cal State
Northridge. My main piano teachers were Mark Levine, Terry Trotter,
and Matt Harris. Of the many voice teachers, I was most influenced by
Sue Raney, Cathy Segal-Garcia and Kurt-Alexander Zellor.
To heal an injury (tendonitis) that resulted from playing the piano, I
began to study the Alexander Technique in the early 1990’s. In 2000,
an article by Tom Mark on pianists’ injuries opened me to the world of
Body Mapping. These two disciplines ultimately provided the information
from which I base all movement - musical and everything else. The
process was one of intense self-investigation, evaluation, and
retraining of the physical, mental and emotional elements involved in
making music. After six years of private lessons and workshops with
Barbara Conable, Amy Likar, Lea Pearson, Tom Mark, Kurt-Alexander
Zellor, and others, I became a certified Andover Educator in 2007.
Now I live in Seattle, have a studio (Emerson Studio of Music), play
Brazilian music, and teach workshops in “What Every Musician Needs to
Know About the Body.” I also offer specialized workshops for pianists,
vocalists, flutists, or percussionists, and teach private lessons in
voice and piano.
I am jazz vocalist and pianist with twenty years of professional
playing experience. I graduated from the Dick Grove School of Music
in LA, and then got a BM in Jazz Studies (piano) from Cal State
Northridge. My main piano teachers were Mark Levine, Terry Trotter,
and Matt Harris. Of the many voice teachers, I was most influenced by
Sue Raney, Cathy Segal-Garcia and Kurt-Alexander Zellor.
