Education

• D.M.A., Contemporary Music Performance, Bowling Green State University, in progress (ABD)
• M.M., Cello Performance, Bowling Green State University, 2019
• B.M., Cello Performance, Highest Honors, University of Southern Mississippi, 2017
• Additional studies, Conservatório Dramático Musical “Dr Carlos de Campos” de Tatuí-SP-Brazil, 2008-2012

Private Studies

• Brian Snow (Bowling Green State University)
• Alexander Russakovsky (University of Southern Mississippi)
• André Micheletti (Private Lessons, Brazil)
• João Guilherme Figueiredo (Baroque Cello, Conservatório de Tatuí-Brazil)

Masterclasses

• Mariel Roberts
• Richard Aaron (Aspen Music Festival and School, The Juilliard School)
• Colin Carr (UK)
• Jaap Ter Linden (Hague Conservatory, Netherlands)
• René Schiffer (Apollo’s Fire)
• Kim Bak Dinitzen (Chamber Orchestra of Europe)
• Umberto Clerici (Italy) (Sydney Symphony Orchestra, principal)
• Amir Eldan (Oberlin Conservatory)
• Amit Peled, (Peabody Institute)
• Jesus Castro-Balbi (Texas Christian University)
• Robert Jesselson (University of South Carolina)
• Dmitry Kouzov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Minna Rose Chung (University of Manitoba)
• Dennis Parker (Louisiana State University)
• Ari Streisfeld (former JACK quartet member, violin)
• Mikhail Kopelman, chamber music (Borodin Quartet, Eastman School of Music)
• Michael Stern (Kansas City Symphony)
• American String Quartet
• Formosa String Quartet

Summer Festivals

• Aspen Music Festival and School, 2021-23
• Northern Lights Music Festival (Minnesota), 2015, 2016
• Brevard Music Festival, 2014
• Rio International Cello Encounter (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2010, 2011, 2013
• Oficina de Música de Curitiba (Brazil), 2012

Performing Experience

Orchestras

• Iris Orchestra (Tennessee), 2022-present
• Lima Symphony Orchestra (Ohio), 2018-20
• Perrysburg Symphony Orchestra (Ohio), 2017-20
• Meridian Symphony Orchestra (Mississippi), 2014-17
• Festival South Orchestra (Mississippi), 2016-17
• OCAM (São Paulo-Brazil), 2012
• Orquestra Antiga do Brasil (Early Music Orchestra, Brazil), 2012
• Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Botucatu (Brazil), 2010-11
• Substitute cellist, Memphis Symphony Orchestra, 2022
• Substitute cellist, Asheville Symphony Orchestra, 2022-23
• Substitute cellist, Mobile Symphony Orchestra (Alabama), 2016
• Substitute cellist, Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra (Mississippi), 2016

Other ensembles

• Iris Collective (Memphis, TN), Artist Fellow, 2022-present
• Ensemble Dal Niente (Chicago, IL), substitute cellist, 2023-present
• Aspen Contemporary Ensemble (Aspen, CO), 2021-23
• Memphis Free Jazz Initiative, 2023-present
• Sparta Quartet (Bowling Green, OH), 2018-2020
• VIVE! Ensemble (Bowling Green, OH), 2018

Collaborations

• Michael Walker II (singer)
• Suzanne Farrin (composer)
• Marcos Balter (composer)
• Michelle Lou (composer)
• Anthony Davis (composer)
• Samuel Adams (composer)
• Sarah Kirkland Snider (composer)
• Samuel Adams (composer)
• David Kirkland Garner (composer)
• Stephen Jaffe (composer)
• Eric Moe (composer)
• Augusta Read Thomas (composer)
• Christopher Theofanidis (composer)
• John Luther Adams (composer)
• Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon (composer)
• Anthony McGill (clarinet)
• Karen Gomyo (violin)
• Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) (composer)
• Marc Bamuthi Joseph (author)
• Tim Weiss (conductor)
• Renée Fleming (soprano)
• Richard Powers (author)
• Nicholas Phan (tenor)
• Nico Muhly (composer)
• Steven Banks (saxophone/composer)
• Don Crockett (composer)
• Stephen Hartke (composer)
• Jason Eckardt (compsoer)
• Fernanda Aoki Navarro (composer)
• Esther Heideman (soprano)
• Du Yun (composer)
• David T. Little (composer)
• Phillip Moll (piano)
• Ursula Oppens (piano)

Premieres, Commissions, and Dedications

• Roberto Carlos Mochetti Jr., l(a, for cello and fixed media, 2024*
• Rafael Fajiolli de Oliveira, Cantiga, for viola caipira and cello, 2023*
• Shahrzad Talebi, Sipping the Clockmaster’s Tea, for viola caipira and cello, 2023*
• Sierra Wojtczack, Approaches, for viola caipira and cello, 2024*
• Michelle Lou, To care for the bodies of the dead, for chamber ensemble, 2023 (world premiere)
• Britta Byström, A Walk on Green Streets, for chamber ensemble, 2014-15 (U.S. premiere 2023)
• Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Forgiveness, Suite for Spoken Word and Chamber Ensemble, 2023
• Kyle Rivera, Black Body Collage, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Gabrielle Herbst, Rainflower in the Red Rock Cliffs, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Matīss Čudars, push, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Isabella Gellis, What Shall We Do, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Baldwin Giang, Scenes from the Post-Diaspora; I: a neon moon in Ximending, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Theodore Haber, What it’s Like Up Close, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Diallo Banks, Chuchotage, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Angela Ortiz, I’m Trying to See Across, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Grace Ann Lee, On Track, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Leigha Amick, The River’s Course, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Udi Perlman, Accompaniment, for chamber ensemble, 2023
• Zacarias Maia, Find an End, for trio, 2021/22 (U.S. Premiere 2023)
• Paul Mortilla, A short ride in a (short ride in a (…)), for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Corey Dundee, polytoxicomania, for pierrot ensemble, 2022
• Julián Fueyo González, Danza del Huracan, for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Sam Kohler, somewhere in the caverns, for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Soomin Kim, Piano Quintet No. 1, 2022
• Daixuan Ai, Childhood Memories, for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Sofía Rocha, On the asymptotic nature of longing, for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Katrina Toner, In Nomine, for fl/cl/vln/vla/vlc, 2022
• Kyle Rivera, Dream Evanescence, for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Gala Flagello, Miss Minutes, for chamber ensemble, 2022
• Karel Goeyvaerts, Pour que les fruits mûrissent cet été, for renaissance instruments (on viola da gamba and vielle), 1975 (U.S. Premiere, 2022)
• Luzilei Aliel, Tesla, for cello and live electronics, 2020 (premiered in 2022)
• Shahrzad Talebi, Maze, for cello and marimba, 2020 (premiered in 2022)
• Connor Gibbs, Inner Voice, for pierrot+ ensemble, 2022
• Alexandre Guilherme, Sonata a Um Homem Sem Talento, for cello and piano, 2021* (premiered in 2022)
• Matthew Lam, In Breezes and Gusts, for flute doubling alto flute and cello, 2021
• Connor Gibbs, Other Worlds, for open ensemble, 2021
• Connor Gibbs, Expansion, for open ensemble, 2021
• Connor Gibbs, Trails, for open ensemble, 2021
• Luzilei Aliel, Ouija, for strings and electronic sounds, 2021
• Du Yun, Oksoko, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• David Clay Mettens, Hollows, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• Wenxin Li, For Dreams Will Be Cold, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• David Jones, An Impulse to Soar, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• Shuying Li, Migration, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• Jordyn Gallinek, Yellow Wallpaper, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• Tanner Porter, Footholds, for clarinet, cello, vibraphone, and piano, 2021
• Melina Tsui, Clanking, Rattling, Scratching, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• Aaron Levin, Snow Fragments, for chamber ensemble, 2021
• Alexandre Guilherme, Valsa do Jaruá, for string quartet, 2021
• Alexandre Guilherme, Choradeira, for string quartet, 2021
• Alexandre Guilherme, De Outros Carnavais, for string quartet, 2021
• Alexandre Guilherme, Nascimento, for string quartet, 2021
• Alexandre Guilherme, Three Preludes, for solo cello, 2021*
• Connor Gibbs, Truth, for solo cello, 2020
• Luzilei Aliel, Tesla, for cello and live electronics, 2020*
• Rafael Fajiolli de Oliveira, Recitativo, for solo cello, 2020*
• Adam Har-zvi, Sonata for Cello and Piano, 2020*
• Pablo Gómez-Estevez, Chanflin, MicroOpera, 2020
• Pablo Gómez-Estévez, Antillean’s Intelect, for pierrot+ ensemble, 2020
• Indigo Knecht, today, MicroOpera, 2020
• Indigo Knecht, MILA FOG, for chamber ensemble and video, 2020
• Adam Har-zvi, Meshugas, for flute, clarinet, cello, and double bass, 2020
• Rafael Fajiolli de Oliveira, Rondó, for solo cello, 2019*
• Roberto Mochetti, Evening Gatha, for two cellos, 2019*
• Anthony Donofrio, XIII, for chamber ensemble, 2019
• Fúlvio Ferrari, Fantasia, for cello and piano, 2019*
• Alexandre Guilherme, For Otamaka, for solo cello, 2019*
• Chace Williams, Halcyon, for cl/vln/vlc/pno, 2019*
• Sam Longo-Capobianco, Automaton, for cl/vln/vlc/pno, 2019*
• Jon-Luke Martin, Groove, for cl/vln/vlc/pno, 2019*
• Emily McPherson, Ebb, for sop/cl/vln/vlc/pno, 2019*
• Adam Har-zvi, The Wanderer, the Guide, and the Beasts of the Mind, MicroOpera, 2019
• Otavio Kavakama, Ode to Noise #2, any combination of bowed string instruments, 2019
• Julia Seeholzer, That Same Blood, for fl/cl/vln/vlc/db/perc/cond, 2018
• Hong-Da Chin, Sfumato, for fl/cl/vln/vlc/db/perc/cond, 2018
• Paul Poston, Picasso Dreams of Drawing Squares, for fl/cl/vln/vlc/db/perc/cond, 2018
• Michael Lanci, Endless Colored Ways, for fl/cl/vln/vlc/db/perc/cond, 2018
• Adam O’Dell, I stood and stared at a lake in a rainstorm, for pierrot ensemble, 2017

*commission

Compositions

• Impure Data, for cello, viola, and live electronics, 2024
• Ne, for solo violin, 2022
• Ode to Noise #453, for viola da gamba and 3 audible instances of the merge sort algorithm, 2022
• Ode to Noise #23, for piano, drum kit, and cello, 2021
• Culture #3, for at least 8 string instruments, 2020
• The Other, or how to peel a banana, for 10 instruments and 2 actors, 2020
• Ode to Noise #2, for any number of string instruments, 2019

Recordings

• Saudade (EP, 2023), Flávio Rodrigues e Cristiane Barbosa
• Festa no Fundo do Mar (Single, 2021), Flávio Rodrigues e Cristiane Barbosa
• Of Past & Present (EP, 2016), Jameson Nathan Jones

Teaching Experience

Mission Statement “My mission is to provide my students all the tools they need to become competent and flexible musicians”

• Private teaching (Cello and Guitar), 2007-present
• Teaching Fellow, Interlochen Center for the Arts, 2024
• Teaching Fellow, Memphis Music Initiative, 2022-23
• Chamber Music Coaching, GPAC Youth Symphony Program (Germantown, TN), 2022-present
• After-school Beginner Violin Class Teacher, Carpenter Art Garden (Memphis, TN), 2022-present
• Cello Mentor, Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Civic Youth Ensembles, 2017-2019
• Teaching Instructor, OPUS Chamber Music Camp, Naperville, IL, 2018
• Teaching Assistant, Southern Miss Kids Orchestra, Hattiesburg, MS, instructor: Gladys Gonzalez, 2016-17
• Teaching Assistant, String Methods, University of Southern Mississippi, instructor: Dr. Hsiaopei Lee, 2016-17
• Teaching Assistant, Musical Initiation - Music Theory (for 6-8-year-olds), Conservatório de Tatuí-Brazil, instructor: Darli Margarete Ventura Paulillo, 2010
• Guitar Instructor, Instituto Musical Pró-Sound, Atibaia-Brazil, 2007-09
• Graduate Assistant at BGSU - [course number]/[section number]
  • As instructor on record:
    • Theory II, MuCT 1520/1003, Spring ‘22
    • Applied Cello, MusP 2830/1001 (Fall ‘19, Spring ‘20, Fall ‘20, Spring ‘21, Fall ‘21, Spring ‘22)
  • As teaching assistant (TA):
    • Theory II, MuCT 1520/1001, Spring ‘22, instructor: Dr. James Bennett
    • Opera Literature, MuCT 4120/1001 (undergraduate) and 6120/6001 (graduate), Fall ‘21, instructor: Dr. Eftychia Papanikolaou
    • Exploring Music of World Cultures
      • Spring ‘21, MuCT 1010/1001, instructor: Dr. Ryan Ebright
      • Fall ‘20, MuCT 1010/1001, instructor: Dr. Mary Natvig
      • Spring ‘20, MuCT 1250 1002/1003, instructor: Dr. Mary Natvig
      • Fall ‘19, MuCT 1250 1001/3001, instructor: Dr. Megan Rancier
    • String Repertoire and Pedagogy, MusP 4580/1001 (undergraduate) 5580/5001 (graduate), Spring ‘21, instructors: Dr. Brian Snow and Ms. Caroline Chin.
• Guest Masterclasses
  • USP Ribeirão Preto-Brazil, 2019
  • Conservatório Dramático e Musical “Dr Carlos de Campos” de Tatuí-Brazil, 2019
  • Orquestra Sinfônica Municipal de Bauru-Brazil, 2019

Publications

• Luzilei Aliel, Damián Keller, Otávio Kavakama, & Roberto Mochetti. (2021, October 14). “Projeto OUIJA: Agenciamento e Relações Espaço-Temporais na Ecomprovisação.” 11th Workshop on Ubiquitous Music (UbiMus 2021), Matosinhos, Portugal & online. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5569103

Misc (music)

• Basic knowledge of string instrument repair
• Basic knowledge of audio and video editing
  • MuCT 5360 Audio Recording Technique, Instructor: Michael Laurello, @BGSU
• Staff at Festival South (Hattiesburg, MS), 2016, 2017, 2022
  • Events Assistant, Equipment crew, Stage crew
• Staff at Natchez Festival of Music, 2022
• Data entry for the Music Library @BGSU, Spring ‘22
• String Instruments Inventory person at the University of Southern Miss, 2013-2017
  • Taking care of the school’s string instruments
  • Assigning instruments to students in the String Methods class, as well as to other students (double bassists who did not own an instrument; student who needed an instrument while theirs was being repaired; etc.)
• Stage and equipment crew at the University of Southern Mississippi, 2013-2017
  • Setting up and striking for rehearsals and concerts
  • Moving instruments and equipment to and from locations (double basses, pianos, music stands, chairs, etc.)
  • Driving van with instruments and/or people to and from concerts/rehearsals
• Podcast co-host and producer
  • Ruídos Podcast (in Portuguese-BR): https://ruidospodcast.com.br
• Member of the taiko group Kawasuji Seiryu Daiko of Atibaia-Brazil, 2006-2009
• Member of many rock bands as a guitarist, drummer, bass player, and singer, Atibaia-Brazil, 2001-2008

Misc (non-music)

• Languages:
  • Portuguese, English, Spanish
• Basic knowledge of bicycle repair
• Linux user (EndeavourOS with Sway) and FOSS enthusiast (Free and Open Source Software)
• Enjoys swimming, cycling, and reading (current book: Orlando, by Virginia Woolf)