About
Hello! And welcome again to my website! I am a recent graduate of University of South Carolina with a bachelor's of music in music performance in French horn, taught by JD Shaw, and a minor in mathematics. For this upcoming academic year, I will be at the University of Potsdam on the Fulbright Student Research Grant, researching 20th century music listening cultures with Professor Christian Thorau. During the 2018-2019 academic year, I worked on two major projects: a paper combining elements of abstract algebra and post-tonal theory and a lecture recital on György Ligeti's Horn Trio. Information for both of these explorations can be found under the research tabs, "Abstract Algebra" and "Listen, Learn, Ligeti."
My advisors for the abstract algebra paper were Dr. Reginald Bain and Dr. Patrick McFaddin. I developed an independent study of abstract algebra and music in order to obtain a fundamental knowledge of abstract algebra and apply this understanding to music. My final paper posed observations of a preexisting paper on math and music, which I utilized for my graduate school applications for music theory.
Dr. Daniel Jenkins aided me in my analysis of Ligeti's Horn Trio. In June 2018, I visited the Paul Sacher Stiftung and Stockhausen Stiftung this past June and transcribed the manuscripts, notes, and sketches of the Trio. With the help of Ligeti resources from scholars such as Amy Bauer, Ben Levy, and Paul Griffiths, we developed a presentation, offering information regarding the music and the composer. I utilized my findings in my lecture recital, "Listen, Learn, Ligeti" in April 2019.
During the 2017-2018 academic year, I worked on the Magellan Explorer with Dr. McFaddin. We researched if flipped learning impacts students' understanding on the applicability of mathematics and if it influences their learning and reasoning. This website provides a variety of resources and information on flipped learning and examples of flipped classrooms found under the "Flipped Classroom" tab under Research.
Additionally, the Spark Collective awarded me third place for the Creativity in Music Awards, in which I conducted an arts integration lesson with a middle school mathematics class. I taught three different middle school math classes about twelve-tone theory through a performance and interactive presentation. My colleague, Claudio, and I performed Francis Poulenc's Elegie for Horn and Piano, and we utilized its beginning twelve-tone row to explain its connections to mathematics. We took the row and manipulated by transposing it (moving it up or down), inverting it (reflecting it over the x-axis), or retrograding it (reading it backwards). To teach these concepts, we translated these concepts graphically to represent the changes mathematically. For more information on this presentation, visit the Math in Music tab under Research.
Lastly, with the help of Dr. Reginald Bain, I used an HTML5 layout and tutorials to enhance my knowledge of website design.