AWARDS
2008
Winner Most Outstanding Graduate at the Doctoral
Level of the Thornton School of Music
Winner Curt Engelhorn Scholarship, The Opera
Foundation, Inc.
Finalist Philadelphia Orchestra Greenfield
Competition
2007
First Place Nunzio Crisci Opera Scholarship,
American Educators of Italian Origin United
Grant Recipient Los Angeles Opera
Buffs
2006
Winner Los Angeles District, Metropolitan Opera
National Council Auditions
First Place Long Beach Mozart Festival Jane Buel
Bradley Vocal Competition
Winner Voice Scholarship Awards
Competition, Pi Iota Chapter of Phi Beta
Winner Phyllis Hausman Loeb—Beatrice
Louviere Scholarship Award Competition
Second Place Carlsbad to Karlovy Vary Vocal
Competition
Fifth Place Palm Springs Opera Guild
Competition
2005
First Place NATS/LA Young Artists
Auditions, Career Division
First Place Hennings-Fischer Burbank
Philharmonic Young Artists Competition
Semi-Finalist Loren L. Zachary Auditions,
Los Angeles Region
Grant Recipient Los Angeles Opera Buffs
2004
Lansing/Friedkin Scholar 18th Annual
Charles Dickens Dinner of the University of Southern
California
Third Place, William Conlin Award MONC
Auditions in Orange County, CA
Winner Adrian Boyer Aria Competition, Bay
View Music Festival
Semi-Finalist Loren L. Zachary Auditions,
Los Angeles Region
2002
Winner MacAllister Awards Regional
Auditions
2000
First Place NJ NATS, Junior College Women
First Place NJ NATS, Sophomore College
Women
1999
First Place NJ NATS, Freshman College
Women
Scholarships
USC Marni Nixon Scholar, 2007
USC Laura B. Thompson and John G. Cameron Endowed
Scholarship in Voice, 2007
USC John Raitt Music Scholar, 2006
USC Marilyn Horne Scholarship for Voice, 2006
USC Sherry Lansing and William Friedkin Scholarship, 2005
USC Flora L. Thornton Endowed Voice Scholarship Award,
2003-2004, 2006
USC Jeanette MacDonald Operetta Scholarship, 2002-2006