I hold music degrees from Utah Valley University, the University of Utah, and Indiana University. In addition to having worked with several world-class teachers and performing a wide variety of solo and chamber music repertoire, my doctoral dissertation spanned several thousand pages and utilized myriad pedagogical resources that have largely never been seen in the West, providing unique solutions to many issues common to violin and viola playing, such as intonation, shifting, bow technique, practice strategies, and public performance. In addition to teaching privately, I currently teach violin and viola at Utah Valley University.