Awards
2005 – 2011 Downbeat Reader’s Poll “Rising Star” Violin Category
2005 Dave Douglas Residency at Carnegie Hall
2002 Betty Carter’s “Jazz Ahead” Residency at Kennedy Center
2000 National Endowment For The Humanities and The Smithsonian Institution Grant to fund a lecture and concert illuminating early American jazz violin pioneers and their impact on the jazz culture in Paris, France during the 1920s and 30s
Played at…
2011 Chicago Jazz Festival
2010 Toronto Jazz Festival
Carnegie Hall, NYC
Ouro Preto “Tudo e Jazz” Festival, Brazil
Millennium Park, Chicago
2009 Zbigniew Seifert Memorial Festival, Poland
Mayor’s Plum Concert Series, Cincinnati
Singapore International Jazz Festival, Singapore
Marians’ Jazz Room, Switzerland
Joe Zawinul’s Birdland, Vienna
NJPAC, New Jersey
Jazz Alley, Seattle
Kuwumba Jazz Center, Santa Cruz
Yoshi’s, Oakland
The Green Mill, Chicago
55 Bar, NYC
Iridium, NYC
Rockwood Music Hall, NYC
Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Lake George Jazz Festival, Lake George
Bakersfield Jazz Festival, Bakersfield
Thalian Hall, Wilmington
Toured/performed/recorded with…
Stanley Clarke
Patricia Barber
Bob Dorough
Frank Vignola
Joel Harrison
Alan Ferber
Donny McCaslin
Gary Versace
Dana Leong
Chris Potter
Gregg Bendian
Sami Yaffa
Featured in…
Downbeat Magazine
Strings Magazine
L.A. Times
College Music Journal
Chicago Tribune
Louisville Courier-Journal
Lexington Herald Leader
