the commercial musical world and academia with equal success. She has composed music for film (Pokemon, The First Movie), television (Fighting Foodons, FoxKids Productions), jingles (including two Super Bowl airings), award-winning theater productions (Off-Broadway and at the Shakespeare Theater in Washington DC), and for dance (at the American Dance Festival). She has also participated in the much-touted ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop in Los Angeles.As an orchestrator, she has worked on many of Elliot Goldenthal’s scores, (including Interview With A Vampire, A Time To Kill, Michael Collins, and S.W.A.T.), and for television (the libraries of The Young and The Restless, and The Bold and The Beautiful).
She has had her concert works performed by the Deutschen Oper Berlin Orchestra, The Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Manhattan Symphony amongst others. The New York Times has quoted her to have "a vivid imagination and a fresh lyric gift."
Academically, she has earned a doctorate from Yale and a Fulbright Fellowship. She has worked closely with several prominent composers including John Corigliano, Jacob Druckman, and Virgil Thomson. She has also lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, including at the Royal College of Music in London, Bristol University, Lehman College, Rutgers University, and Carleton College.