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I. Solo Recital: Saturday, April 29, 2023, 5:30 p.m., Recital Hall. Wesendonck Lieder (Richard Wagner); Schubert Set- Der Tod und das Mädchen, Rastlose Liebe, Die junge Nonne, Der Dopplegänger (Franz Schubert); Strauss Set- Schön sind doch kalt, Morgen, Allerseelen, Ruhe meine Seele (Richard Strauss); Drei Lieder für Mezzosopran mit Klavierbegleitung, Op. 19 (Robert Owens).
II. Leading Operatic Roles: Sunday, February 18, 2024, Cleveland Opera Theatre. Role: Mary. Highway 1, USA (William Grant Still). Friday, March 22, 2024, UNCG Auditorium. Role: La zia Principessa. Suor Angelica (Giacomo Puccini).
III. Solo Recital: Saturday, October 5, 2024, 5:30 p.m., Recital Hall. Cinco Canciones Negras (I, III, IV, & V) (Xavier Montsalvatge); Chansons Madécasses (Maurice Ravel); Liebeslied (Dora Pejačević); My Lover’s Dreaming (Jarrett Roseborough); Price Set- Song to the Dark Virgin, My Dream, Bewilderment, Night (Florence Price); To a Brown Girl Dead (Margaret Bonds); Grief (William Grant Still); I am not an Angry Black Woman (Maria Thompson Corley).
IV. D.M.A. Research Project. A GREAT CLOUD OF WITNESSES: A SONG CYCLE CELEBRATING THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF BLACK AMERICANS TO MUSIC AND THE RESILIENCE OF THE BLACK FAMILY UNIT BEYOND TRAUMA, (2025).
The purpose of this project was to provide context and a further look into the process of creating a piece of work with a living composer. The topic of interest was specific in addressing the disparity of musical material centered on a non-traumatic-based view of the Black family unit. Along with this methodology of research, it was important to speak historically on the commodity of Black Trauma in Film and Art Music, and how this song cycle fills in the voided spaces within vocal Western art music that is not centered on historical trauma or the societal gaze of what the Black lived experience is, but from a viewpoint of an individual within the Black lived experience.