Harp with Catherine A.

Quintessential Harp Duo

Touring harp duo with professional harpist Rebecca Todaro, giving performances of new and loved favorites for harp throughout Louisiana and beyond.

Greater New Orleans Suzuki Forum

The Greater New Orleans Suzuki Forum exists to promote the Suzuki Method in the Greater New Orleans area, to the edification of children, parents, and teachers. Forum students perform throughout the Greater New Orleans area in music festivals and concerts, as well as for schools, charitable organizations, and rest homes, during the school year. Celebration in the Oaks, Zoo-to-Do for Kids, the Preservation Resource Tour, Japan Fest, and Jazz Fest have all featured Forum students performing classical and fiddle music. Some Forum students have played in local orchestras, notably the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra. Many have gone on to have their own teaching careers and become professional performers!

Musaica Chamber Ensemble

Musaica is a non-profit chamber music ensemble founded in the fall of 2006 by eight devoted professional musicians from the Louisiana Philharmonic, several of whom are also faculty members at Loyola and Tulane Universities and the University of New Orleans. Our mission is to promote and foster chamber music performance; to encourage the composition of new music; and to increase the awareness and appreciation of chamber music. Musaica presents a variety of eclectic and entertaining chamber music to audiences throughout the New Orleans metropolitan area. Each year three diverse programs are performed several times in different venues in metropolitan New Orleans, including surrounding parishes. The Musaica concert series presents familiar and accessible works alongside those which are new or less often performed.

Tulane University School of Music

Faculty member at the Tulane University School of Music, teaching private harp course, coaching harp ensembles, and providing support for the Tulane orchestra and band.

Indiana University Jacobs School of Music

Music for Healing and Transition Program

Suzuki Association of American

Suzuki approach to teaching is based on the belief that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed. Any child who is properly trained can develop musical ability, just as all children develop the ability to speak their mother tongue. The potential of every child is unlimited.

Music for Healing and Transition Program

A graduate of MHTP is called a Certified Music Practitioner (CMP). This specially-trained musician provides live acoustic music at bedside, one-on-one, for therapeutic purposes. A CMP’s work is focused on the patient with the aim of bringing in-the-moment comfort to the patient’s whole being—emotional, spiritual, mental, and physiological—simply by having the patient be in the presence of the music. A CMP uses only live music, and has no goal other than addressing a patient’s immediate needs to provide a healing environment.

The American Harp Society (AHS) is a non-profit organization whose mission is "to promote and foster the appreciation of the harp as a musical instrument, to encourage the composition of music for the harp and to improve the quality of performance of harpists.

A labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada. Founding in 1896 as the successor to the "National League of Musicians," the AFM is the largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians.

Native Proficiency