Experience

Immaculate Conception Church

• Non-profit Organizations
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Musician/Cantor/Pianist

  • Dec 2002 - Present

  Playing Piano and accompanying myself, leading the songs and responsorial psalms for the Saturday and Sunday 5pm masses. 2010-2014: Choir director, accompanist for young adult choir and young Jesuit volunteer choir. Chose music, rehearsed choir, assisted the instrumentalists, guitar and flute in appropriate accompaniments for the music of the mass. Assisted choir with solo and ensemble singing. 2012: Choir member, soprano section leader, piano and organ accompanist for the Young adult Chant Choir, formed by newly ordained Jesuit priest, Fr. Patrick, J Huff. Assisted in rehearsals, accompaniment on Piano and organ, soprano soloist. Accompanied on Harp, rehearsed solo singers and choir, for the singing of the Palm Sunday gospel. Exclusive harpist for Masses for Fr. Huff at the San Jose church in Albuquerque, and soprano section leader for music for the chant mass sung at The Church of the Incarnation in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Choir member and section leader for the Corpus Christi Procession from the Immaculate Conception church, to the San Felipe church. Sang a capella, in Latin, the sequences for Easter, Pentacost, and the Feast of Corpus Christi. 2012: Harpist for the Taize prayer service. 2006, 2007: Harpist for the Way of the Cross, Good Friday Stations of the Cross and healing services. Show less



Albuquerque Harpist

• Harpist

  • Aug 1992 - Present

  www.albuquerqueharpist.com Harpist for weddings, Catholic masses, funerals, liturgies, parties, receptions, corporate functions. Harpist, soloist, soprano section leader for various liturgies for the Norbertine Community of Santa Maria De La Vid Abbey: Abbot blessing mass, Taize in the Desert, Final Vow mass, mass to become a Deacon. Transcribed a melody line to chordal accompaniment, for the Mass of St. Augustine, by Brother Graham Golden. 2014, 2013: Provided Harp Music for the annual Project Defending Life Banquet. 2012: Provided harp music for the open house of the New Medical Resort at Fiesta Park. 2011, 2012: Provided harp Music for Wells Fargo spring Banquet. 2012: Provided harp music for the fund raising event of Albuquerque Center for Plastic Surgery which would be to fund doctors and medical teams to go to South America and provide corrective surgery to children with burn scars and cleft palates. 2006, 2007, 2008: Provided creative harp accompaniments and interlude music to the readings of the Stations of the Cross Good Friday Prayer Service at Immaculate Conception Church, Albuquerque NM. 1993-1994: Harpist for Weddings, sacrament of Confirmation, Graduations at the Jemez Pueblo, NM 1993: Taught 1 week harp workshop at the Zia Pueblo, NM, gifted children's summer program. Workshop included individual harp lessons and performance of Indian Life Set to Music, by DeMaris Gaines of Miami, OK. 1992: Harp and Voice Christmas Recital at the Zia Pueblo church, NM 1992 - Current: St. Mary's children's liturgies: First Reconciliation, First Holy Communion, 8th grade Graduation. Show less



St. Mary's Catholic School, Albuquerque NM

• Music Instructor Level lll, Certified Pre K-12 with Performing Arts Endorsement

  • Aug 1992 - Present

  General music: pre-school through eighth grade. Assist with Catholic liturgies for students as harpist, pianist, and choir director: First Communion, Sacrament of First Reconciliation, Graduation, weekly masses. Annual Christmas program which from 1999 until 2012 was performed in the Kiva Auditorium, a 2300 seat venue in the Albuquerque convention center. SPECIAL PERFORMANCES: 2014: CACE Convention held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Students assisted in the liturgy as the choir and responsorial psalm singers for the opening liturgy of this convention of NCEA board members, Catholic Superintendents and Principals. 2014: St. Mary's 6th grade choir provided the music for the Columbus Day Mass at the Immaculate Conception in Albuquerque, NM 2014 and 2006: Director and accompanist for the St. Mary's school children's choir for the annual Archdiocese of Santa Fe All Catholic Schools mass, at the St. Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe, NM 2013: St. Mary's students provided music for the opening liturgy of the Southwest Liturgical Conference, held in the Kiva Auditorium of the Albuquerque Convention Center. 2008: St. Mary's Children's choir was the first children's choir to sing for the annual Rosary Rally. 2002: St. Mary's students were invited to sing patriotic songs at the Hispanic Cultural Center for the arrival and dedication of one of the beams from the Twin Towers in New York. 2000: St. Mary's fourth grade students performed a meaningful musical at the First Annual Character Counts banquet: A Better You, a Better Me, By Roger Emmerson 1999 and 2000: Harpist, accompanist, and director of the St. Mary's children's choir at the Jewish-Catholic Colloquium. 1993: Harpist and director of the St. Mary's forth grade choir as they made a recording at Wagner Studios in Albuquerque, NM, commemorating the 100 years of St. Mary's School. Songs included: The Bells of St. Marys, Panis Angelicus, Ave Maria, Dona Nobis Pacem, sung in a 3 part round. Lisence #: 236378 Show less



Professional Vocal Soloist of Classical Music

• Soprano/Mezzo Soprano

  • 1992 - Present

  Provide vocal music for sacred, secular and patriotic settings. Vocal Recordings of Sacred song and Christmas Carols with DeMaris Gaines, harpist/pianist: All Nature Sings; With Harps of Gold. 2014: Guest soloist to sing the National Anthem for the Opening Night Ceremony at the International Weems Artfest. 2013-2014: Soloist for the Easter Vigil and Easter Sunday liturgies for St. Thomas Aquinas Parish in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Director, Steve Woodbury. Music consisted of solo, small ensemble and choral pieces: "Let the Bright Seraphim" (Samson) G.F. Handel "Alleluia" (Exutate Jubilate) W.A. Mozart "Gloria" (Coronation Mass) W.A. Mozart "O Come Everyone that Thirsteth" (quartet from Elijah) Mendelssohn 2014: Performed an opera aria recital for an opera class of special needs adults attending the Very Special Arts day program at the North Fourth Art Center. 2012, 1998, 1997: Soloist for the Annual Rosary Rally held in the Isotopes Baseball Park. Led the singing of the assembly for the responsorial psalm and the songs for the rosary and mass. Solos included: Ave Maria, Bach-Gonoud, Panis Angelicus, C. Franck 1992-present: Performed original compositions by composer DeMaris Gaines: Night of Rhapsody, Angels in the Air, The Strings of My Heart, Greater is He, Be Merciful Oh Lord, for We Have Sinned; a responsorial psalm for Ash Wednesday, written especially for the students of St. Mary's School. Classical vocal repertoire by the following composers, and others not listed: J.S. Bach, P. Cannon, J.Duke, Guiridi, Halffter, Handel, Hindemith, Liza Lehmann, Mendelssohn, Menotti, Mompou, Montsalvatge, Obradors, Purcell, Respghi, Rodrigo, Rorem, Schoenberg, Schubert, R. Strauss, Turina, Vivaldi, Weil. Show less



Solomon Schechter Day School

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Music Instructor

  • Aug 1999 - May 2004

  General music teacher K-5, for the Jewish day school at their new building on Wyoming. Enhanced their holidays through appropriate Hebrew songs. On various occasions, accompanied the children's choir on the harp, and directed the students as they performed seasonal music at the Hanukkah festival held in the Albuquerque Convention Center ballrooms. Collaborated with Catholic students from St. Mary's and Solomon Schechter Day school on a musical called "The Creation" by Roger Emerson, in which there was a common Old Testament theme of Creation, saving seeds for replanting, and for the beauty of the earth. Show less



Christian Science Church

• United Kingdom

• Soloist

  • 1999 - 2001

  Sang an appropriate solo each Sunday service, and led the hymns for the congregation. Sang an appropriate solo each Sunday service, and led the hymns for the congregation.



Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Musician/Cantor/Harpist

  • 1998 - 1999

  Played folk harp to accompany myself as I sang the responsorial psalm. Led the assembly in singing the hymns and parts of the mass. Played folk harp to accompany myself as I sang the responsorial psalm. Led the assembly in singing the hymns and parts of the mass.



ST. Mary's Colgan, Elementary and High School

• Music Instructor K-12

  • 1990 - 1991

  General music instructor for the kindergarten, middle school and high school students. Performed musical presentations in the fall, Christmas program, and spring concert. Students in high school auditioned for and performed solos and ensembles in the district and state competitions. General music instructor for the kindergarten, middle school and high school students. Performed musical presentations in the fall, Christmas program, and spring concert. Students in high school auditioned for and performed solos and ensembles in the district and state competitions.



First United Methodist Church

• United States
• Religious Institutions
• 700 & Above Employee

• Musician, soloist, section leader, harpist

  • 1983 - 1990

  Soprano section leader for the choir which performed a four part choral anthem each Sunday. Performed an appropriate solos for the service at least once a month. Sang in small performing ensembles, such as the 6 voice madrigal singers, who performed madrigals at various occasions, and especially for the Madrigal style fund raising dinners. Participated in the chancel choir trip to Europe in the summer of 1986, to perform as choir for the Anglican church services. Also performed as soloist for the concerts which were held at various cathedrals, Frequent soloist with voice and harp, for concerts performed at the University Timmons Chapel. Especially asked to perform solos for the American spiritual music. Show less