Achievements


NCTM in Piano Teaching 2025

Missouri Arts Council Featured Artist 2023
 https://www.missouriartscouncil.org/featured-artists/
My collaborative coaching students Lucas Shroyer (Right), Brett Barger (Middle), Jessica Alvarado Brenes (Third to the left), and Autumn Heath (Second to the left) won the First of the Undergraduate Upper Division (Shroyer), Honorable Mention (Barger), Graduate Division Runner-Up (Brenes), and Frist (Heath) in the 2022 Missouri Music Teachers Association Collegiate Woodwinds competition. 

Third Prize Winner of the North International Music Competition 2021

2nd Place Piano of the King’s Peak International Music Competition 2021

First Prize of the 18th edition Muse International Music Competition 2020


Honorable Mention of the Paderewski International Piano Competition 2020

Best Baroque Award in Piano Solo, World Piano Teachers’ Association Singapore 2019

Platinum Award in Piano Solo, World Piano Teachers’ Association Singapore 2019

First Prize New York Golden Classical Music Awards International Competition 2019

Second Prize of the Rising Star Grand Prix International Music Competition 2019

VCU Department of Music Excellence in Music Award 2016

MTNA Young Artist Performance Piano Competition, Virginia State, 2013-2015

MaTilDa Awards in Piano Solo and Chamber Music, Oakland University, 2012

Winner of the Hershey Symphony Orchestra Young Artist Competition 2010

First Prize of the 2nd Wiesbaden International Piano Competition 2002