Writing
Practice
—March 2026
Most musicians think of practice as the act of filling space with sound. I've come to believe the opposite — that the most important work happens in the rests, in the moments of stillness between phrases, where you listen to what you just played and decide if it was true.
Read More →Reflections
—November 2025
After competing at the Concours de Genève and the Hindemith International Viola Competition in the same year, I walked away with something I hadn't expected: a clearer picture of why I play. Not to win. Not even to be heard. But to say something I couldn't say any other way.
Read More →The Viola
—August 2025
People ask me why I chose the viola. I tell them the truth: the viola chose me. Its voice sits in a register between statement and question — not the brilliant assertion of the violin, not the grounded authority of the cello, but something uncertain, searching, deeply human. That is where I live.
Read More →Teaching
—May 2025
My first year as a Teaching Assistant at UT Austin taught me that the best pedagogical tool I have isn't a method book or a fingering chart. It's the ability to stop talking and actually listen — to what a student is doing, and more importantly, to what they are trying to do.
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