Teaching Artist · Music Program Director · NYC
With more than 13 years of professional experience, I design music programs that build practical skills and lead to stronger ensembles, recordings, and polished performances.
I bring the standards of a working artist into every program: attentive listening, instrumental command, rehearsal discipline, creative identity, stagecraft, and the ability to carry an idea all the way to an audience.
Ways to work with me
I offer music literacy and custom ensembles, studio recording experiences, professional music direction, and open music jams that help institutions welcome and recruit new participants. Each service can stand alone or lead into a longer program.
I offer practical programs that help participants understand music by making it together. Depending on the organization’s goals and resources, I can develop guitar, melodica, percussion, vocal, music-technology, mixed-instrument, or full-band ensembles—each built toward stronger musical independence and a shared performance.
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I offer guided studio experiences in which participants learn how preparation, arrangement, performance, recording, and production become a finished piece of music. Existing songs, covers, new arrangements, and original material can culminate in a recording, album, listening presentation, or documented creative project.
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I offer professional direction for existing or developing groups. I assess the available musicians, organize repertoire, clarify roles, lead rehearsals, and guide bands, vocal ensembles, casts, worship teams, and special productions toward a coordinated, polished final performance.
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I facilitate welcoming, guided jam sessions where young musicians can participate at their current level, meet other players, experiment with instruments, and experience making music as an ensemble. For organizations, the jam can serve as a high-engagement community event, a recruitment point, and an accessible pathway into longer music literacy, ensemble, studio, and performance programs.
Plan an open jam →Optional digital release and distribution, listening events, promotional materials, and fundraising support can be scoped separately when an organization wants to give the final project a public life.
I help churches develop the musicians they already have while creating a pathway for the next generation. The program brings together music literacy, instrumental training, worship repertoire, ensemble roles, rehearsal systems, performance preparation, recording when appropriate, and leadership development. The goal is not simply to offer music classes. It is to help the church build a growing, dependable in-house worship ministry it can sustain.
Discuss a ministry pathway →Program formats
The flagship semester format supports sustained development. The summer format compresses the same momentum into an intensive schedule. Both are designed around a final outcome rather than a series of disconnected lessons.
One 90-minute session per week. The sequence moves from assessment and foundations through repertoire, ensemble roles, refinement, and final presentation.
Includes curriculum and standard preparation, program adaptation, and direction of the final showcase.
Two 90-minute sessions per week. The concentrated schedule gives participants enough contact time to form the group, develop repertoire, refine the work, and complete a meaningful final presentation.
Single workshops, shorter engagements, and ongoing ensemble direction are also available by custom proposal.
How partnership works
The program is adapted without becoming vague: each engagement has a defined group, schedule, learning focus, and final result.
We identify participants, strengths, challenges, instruments, space, schedule, funding, and goals.
I recommend the ensemble, curriculum, repertoire, milestones, documentation, and final outcome.
Participants build musicianship, assume clear roles, rehearse together, and learn how the complete musical process works.
The engagement culminates in a polished performance, recording, album, listening event, or creative presentation.
My approach
“The classroom is a living ensemble. Every participant brings knowledge, experience, and possibility.”
My role is to uncover those abilities, give the group a common musical language, and guide the process from exploration to achievement.
Selected experience
Across music, theater, technology, recording, and ministry, my purpose has remained consistent: help people discover ability and turn it into shared achievement.
For Summer Boost 2024, I taught vocal technique, developed performance repertoire, accompanied the production, and directed the musical component of the final showcase in collaboration with the teaching team.
I designed and launched a multi-instrument youth program connecting worship repertoire with music literacy, ensemble communication, rehearsal discipline, leadership, and public performance.
I led and mentored Bronx teenagers through songwriting, studio recording, live performance, group cohesion, and creative identity while creating a supportive environment for navigating adolescence.
I created a youth-centered academy covering Songwriting 101, studio recording, collaborative arrangement, and ensemble performance. Participants wrote and produced three albums and presented multiple showcases.
I guided groups of teenagers through an intensive six-week process combining community stewardship, group development, music instruction, rehearsal, and final performance.
I taught and organized young adults around community networking, technical literacy, local infrastructure, collaborative problem-solving, and neighborhood stewardship.
From process to outcome
Recordings, public showcases, ensemble performances, and youth-created albums demonstrate a method developed in real classrooms and communities—not only in a program description.
About me
I began by tutoring classmates in mathematics. When I discovered music as a teenager, that same instinct followed me: I learned, organized musicians, formed ensembles, and shared what I knew with my peers.
After completing my formal music education, I turned that vocation into a professional career. For more than 13 years, I have designed curricula, directed ensembles, coached performers, and helped participants develop skills they can carry throughout their lives.
As a Bronx-based Dominican teaching artist, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, performer, and program director, I combine trained musicianship with practical experience in classrooms, studios, theaters, community programs, and churches.
The strongest fit is an organization seeking a complete, outcome-centered music program—not only occasional entertainment or isolated lessons.
Request a consultation
Tell me about your organization, participants, timeline, and goals. I will recommend an appropriate format and prepare a custom proposal.