Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
PhD, Music Theory, expected May 2028
Dissertation: “Sounding the Anime Media Mix.”
Committee: Profs. Suzannah Clark (chair), Alexander Rehding, Toru Momii, and Alexander Zahlten
MA, distinction, Music Theory, 2023

Niigata University, Niigata, JPN
Research Student, Fulbright affiliate

CUNY Queens College, Flushing, NY
MA, Music Theory, 2021
Thesis: “Danger: Wolf Crossing! Meantone Tuning and Froberger’s Keyboard Music.”
Advisor: Prof. William Rothstein

Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
MPhil, Music (Performance Studies), 2019
Dissertation: “Learning Well-tempered Behavior: The Performance of Bach’s Keyboard Works on the Ill-tempered Piano.”
Supervisor: Mine Doğantan-Dack

Williams College, Williamstown, MA
BA, cum laude, Music and Mathematics, 2018
Thesis: “Reclaiming Musical Inequality: A Study on Historical Tunings and Modulatory Schemes of Preludes in J.S. Bach’s Das wohltemperierte Klavier, BWV 846-869.”
Advisors: Prof. Ed Gollin and Ms. Doris Stevenson

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Popular music analysis, Intercultural analysis, 17th-century keyboard music, Media theory, Queer and trans musicology, Tuning and temperament, Performance studies, Music theory pedagogy, Digital humanities

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Harvard Griffin GSAS Presidential Scholarship 2021–26
Oscar Straus Schafer Teaching Fellowship, 2026
Fulbright Graduate Research Grant (Japan, Niigata University), 2025
Nino and Lea Pirrotta Fellowship, 2025
Reischauer Institute Wintersession Graduate Research Grant, 2024
Society of Music Theory Minority Travel Grant, 2024
John Knowles Paine Traveling Fellowship, 2024
Richard F. French Fellowship, 2023
Harry and Marjorie Ann Slim Memorial Fund Award, 2022
Helen L. and Benjamin J. Buttenwieser Scholarship, 2022
Black House Soloist Competition, Fourth Prize, 2021
Harvard Griffin GSAS Presidential Scholarship, 2021
Arthur Balsam Foundation Chamber Ensemble Scholarship, 2020–21
Aaron Copland School of Music Merit Scholarship, 2019
Hubbard Hutchinson 1917 Memorial Fellowship in Music, 2018
Colin and Lili Roche 1993 Student Fellowship, 2017
Berkshire Symphony Soloists Competition Winner, 2016

PUBLICATIONS

Review of Gavin S.K. Lee, Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory (Oxford University Press, 2023), Journal of Music Theory (forthcoming 2026, invited).

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Listening to le Règle: Le tempérament ordinaire and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Suite No. 3 in A minor,” Northeast Conference of Music Theorists, Williamstown, MA, April 4–5, 2025.

“Listening to le Règle: Le tempérament ordinaire and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre’s Suite No. 3 in A minor,” Galant Schema Theory: Contemporary Approaches to Composition, Pedagogy, Performance, virtual, March 21–3, 2025.

“‘Shake It Up and Make It Fizz’: Material, Bonding Play, and Dungeon Intimacies in SOPHIE’s ‘VYZEE’,” Society for Music Theory Annual Meeting, Jacksonville, FL, November 7–10, 2024.

“SOPHIE’s ‘Faceshopping’: Bonding Play and Listening to the Sonic Trans,” Feminist Theory & Music 17, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, June 20–22, 2024.

“SOPHIE’s ‘Faceshopping’: Bonding Play and Listening to the Sonic Trans,” GAMuT Graduate Student Conference, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, February 3, 2024.

“Danger: Wolf Crossing! Meantone Tuning and Froberger’s Keyboard Music,” American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory Joint Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, November 9–12, 2023.

“Danger: Wolf Crossing! Meantone Tuning and Froberger’s Keyboard Music,” Mikrotöne: Small is Beautiful: Symposium of the International Ekmelic Music Society, Salzburg, Austria, June 30–July 2, 2023.

“Expressive Timing and its Histories,” South Central Society for Music Theory Conference, Hattiesburg, MI, March 23–4, 2018.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS, LECTURES, and PERFORMANCES

Pianist, Kyle Miller’s “Misen Enècs” and “Over Root and Thorn,” in Over Root and Thorn, New York, NY, forthcoming.

Piano Soloist, Grazyna Bacewicz’s Piano Concerto with the Horizon Ensemble, Boston, MA, Fall 2026.

Piano Soloist, Francis Poulenc’s Piano Concerto with The Student Center Orchestra at Harvard Griffin GSAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Spring 2026.

Guest lecturer, “Music, Sound, and Voice in Anime,” GENED 1042: Anime as Global Popular Culture (Tomiko Yoda), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 15, 2025.

Guest lecturer,“Transing Music Studies,” Introduction to Musicology (Siriana Lundgren), St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, March 26, 2025.

Guest lecturer, “Anime and Studio Ghibli,” MUSC 1113: Film Music (Samantha Jones), Northeastern University, Boston, MA, November 15, 2024.

Pianist, Portrait Concert, A Celebration of The Life and Legacy of Maud Cuney Hare, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 4–5, 2024.

Piano Soloist, “Autochthonous,” Grazyna Bacewicz’s Piano Concerto with The Student Center Orchestra at Harvard Griffin GSAS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, May 5, 2024.

Pianist, Recordings for Shreffler, Anne C. “The Forgotten Radical: Miriam Gideon’s ‘Scottsboro’ Cantata (1937),” Radcliffe Exploratory Seminar: Artistic Legacies of Scottsboro, Cambridge, MA, November 3–4, 2022.

Pianist, Juhi Bansal’s “The Lost Country of Sight” and Jessica May’s “Elegy,” in Elegy with the BlackBox Ensemble, New York, NY, December 12, 2020.

Guest lecturer, “Publishing Errata, Performance Editions, and ‘Le Chevalier’ Saint-Georges,” IMSLP Engrave-A-Thon, Sound Off! Music for Bail, January 23, 2021.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Head Teaching Fellow, Musical Analysis, Composition, and Interpretation (Prof. Alexander Rehding), Spring 2025
Teaching Fellow, Music Theory II (Prof. Michèle Duguay), Spring 2025
Teaching Fellow, Music Theory I (Dr. Liam Hynes-Tawa), Fall 2024
Teaching Fellow, Analyzing Pop Music (Prof. Toru Momii), Spring 2024
Teaching Fellow, Harvard Glee Club (Prof. Andrew Clark), Spring 2024
Teaching Fellow, Music Theory I (Prof. Toru Momii), Fall 2023
Teaching Fellow, Harvard Glee Club (Prof. Andrew Clark), Fall 2023

Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Nelson, NH
Teaching Assistant, Chamber Music (Mr. Javier Caballero), Summer 2024

Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Teaching Assistant, Piano (Ms. Doris Stevenson), Fall 2016–Spring 2018

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SCHOLARLY
Conference Chair, “TRANS∗Media,” Graduate Music Forum Conference, February 28–March 1, 2025.
Digital Exhibit Designer, “芳音如蘭 Sweet Sounds from Rulan Chao Piano” Exhibition, Loeb Music Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2023
Program Annotator, Apple Hill String Quartet, Nelson, NH, 2020
Program Annotator, Williams Chamber Players, Williamstown, MA, 2019–20
Program Annotator, Empath Concerts, Georgetown, Washington D.C., 2019
Media Specialist and Web Developer, “Saint Donatian Mass – Jacob Obrecht,” “Ear Lab,” and “Williams College Solar Eclipse Expeditions,” 2016–18

MENTORSHIP
Cabin Camp Worker, Apple Hill Center for Chamber Music, Nelson NH, 2019–21

CREATIVE
Pianist, Horizon Ensemble, Boston, MA, 2021–.
Rehearsal Pianist, Cambridge Community Choir, Cambridge, MA, 2024–25.
Keyboardist, The Student Center Orchestra at Harvard Griffin GSAS, Cambridge, MA, 2023–25.
Collaborative Pianist, Harvard Glee Club, Cambridge, MA, 2023–24.
Toy Pianist, ZEnsemble, 2020–2021.
Pianist, Blackbox Ensemble, 2020.
Pianist, Balsam Piano Trio, 2020.

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Harvard University
Chair, Graduate Music Forum, Department of Music, 2023–25
Conference Program Chair, Graduate Music Forum, Department of Music, 2024–25
Secretary, Graduate Music Forum, Department of Music, 2022–23
Member, Graduate Student and Faculty Community Committee, Department of Music, 2023–25
Coordinator, Theory Tuesdays Graduate Student Research Workshop, Department of Music, 2023–24
Member, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Committee, Department of Music, 2022–25
Chair, Southern-Pian Society, Department of Music, 2021–23

LANGUAGES

English: native, Mandarin: fluent (spoken), Japanese: intermediate, Spanish: proficient, Italian: reading, German: reading