Research and Creative Activity

The Wind Band Music of William Grant Still
(2025)

2025 CBDNA National Conference
Fort Worth, TX

Returning Home: Renowned Composer Ulysses Kay in Arizona (2025)

Journal of Arizona History, vol. 66, no. 1 (Spring 2025)

Rediscovering William Grant Still: A Survey of Original Wind Band Music and Posthumous Transcriptions
(2024)

27th IGEB International Wind Music Conference
Valencia, Spain

Tools for Interdisciplinary Studies Within the High School Performing Ensemble
(2024)

2024 Teaching Music History Conference
Columbus, GA

Crafting Meaningful Learning Experiences Through Diverse Ensemble Programming
(2023)

Presented with Dr. Brent Levine (Associate Director of Bands, Northern Arizona University) and Carrie Hester (Director of Bands, Flowing Wells High School)

2023 Arizona Music Educators Association Conference
Mesa, AZ

Tools for Interdisciplinary Musical Studies Within the High School Performing Ensemble
(2022)

2022 Arizona Music Educators Association Conference
Mesa, AZ

Walking Mahler’s New York*
(2020)

New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Gustav Mahler Digital Festival

New York, NY

*group research contributor as part of the University of Arizona musicology student cohort

Ulysses Kay and Racial Relations in the New York Philharmonic
(2020)

29th University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music CMT Colloquium
Tucson, AZ

He’s Got Next: Implications of Common’s Foundations for Hip-Hop Music in Chicago
(2019)

Indiana University’s 2019 “Hip-Hop in the Golden Age” Conference
Bloomington, IN