Classical Piano Experience (Performance)

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• Started playing piano in 2007, started learning piano in Amsterdam with Allan Segall

• After moving to America in 2010, started studying piano with Joanne Rawson-Moreau

• In June 2014, started studying classical piano performance with Paul Orgel

• Played at a recital of Paul Orgel’s students in September 2014

• Played at a recital of Paul Orgel’s students in June 2015

• Played at a recital of Paul Orgel’s students in October 2015

• Played at a recital of Paul Orgel’s students in September 2014

• Played at a recital of Paul Orgel’s students in January 2015

• In December 2015, performed Stravinsky’s Firebird with the Vermont Youth Orchestra

• In March 2016, performed Manuel de Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet with the Vermont Youth Orchestra

• Performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 with a chamber music group of VYO and CVCMF musicians at the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival in August 2016

• Received a piano scholarship at the 2017 All State Music Festival.

• Accompanied the Vermont Youth Orchestra in their Link-Up concert on March 9, 2017.

• Performed as opening act at the 2017 Middle School Choral Festival on March 10, 2017.

• Won the Burlington Chamber Orchestra Concerto Competition on Feb. 11, 2017, and performed Bach’s Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor with the orchestra on May 13, 2017.

• Played as a featured guest at Joanne Moreau’s student recital on June 4, 2017.

• Appeared on Mount Mansfield Community Television (Toni Basanta, The Cuban Bridge) on July 12, 2017.

• Performed Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 2 at the Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival on August 20, 2017

• Performed the first movement of Vivaldi’s Gloria at the VYOA Autumn Promenade on September 28, 2017

• Performed Berg’s Sonata, Op. 1 at a masterclass with Ilya Poletaev at the McGill open house on October 28, 2017

• Performed Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Arturo Marquéz’s Danzon No. 2 with the Vermont Youth Orchestra and Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy with the Vermont Youth Strings at OrchestraChorusPalooza on Dec. 10, 2017

• Performed Chopin’s Etude Op. 10 No. 4 and Schubert’s Impromptu Op. 92 No. 4. at the 2017 Burlington Young Artists Showcase on January 9, 2018

• Performed Chopin’s Etude Op. 10 No. 4 and Brahms’ Rhapsodie Op. 119 No. 4. at the 2018 MMU Band concert on April 11, 2018

• Performed Chopin’s Etude Op. 10 No. 4 and Brahms’ Rhapsodie Op. 119 No. 4. at the 2018 Vermont All State Music Festival at the scholarship concert on May 10, 2018

• Performed in Appalachian Spring with the 2018 Vermont All State Orchestra on May 12, 2018

• Performed in Jan van der Roost’s Istvan with the 2018 Vermont All State Concert Band on May 12, 2018

• Performed Mason Williams’ Classical Gas with the MMU Wind Ensemble on June 1 and June 6, 2018

• Performed Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 7 at a recital of the students of Paul Orgel on June 10, 2018

• Performed Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 7 for the VYO Board of Directors on June 12, 2018

• Attended the 2018 Oberlin Summer Piano Festival and performed in the festival Competition and Recital from July 19-26, 2018

• Played organ on Edward Elgar’s Enigma Variations and harp on Leonard Bernstein’s West Side Story - Selections for Orchestra at the Vermont Youth Orchestra Fall Concert on September 30, 2018

• Accompanied Abigail Grimm and Anna Halladay on Saint-Saëns’ The Swan and W. H. Squire’s Bourée, Op. 24 at a fundraiser for the Ronald McDonald House Corporation on December 19th, 2018

• Performed in the Young Artists Recital at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul on January 8, 2019

• Performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Vermont Youth Orchestra at the Flynn Theater on February 3, 2019

• Performed George Gershwin’s I Got Rhythm Variations with the Vermont Youth Orchestra and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra on March 14, 2019

• Performed Franz Liszt’s Transcendental Étude No. 10: Allegro agitato molto in the 2019 Hermance Prize Recital, hosted by the Vermont Youth Orchestra, on April 17, 2019

• Received the Vermont Youth Orchestra’s Harry Hermance Prize on May 3, 2019

• Performed Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 7, Bach’s Prelude and Fugue Book II No. 1 in C Major, Benjamin Britten’s Holiday Diary Suite, and Liszt’s Transcendental Étude No. 10 in a solo recital at the Richmond Free Library on June 16, 2019.

 

Jazz Piano Experience (Performance)

 

• Joined Browns River Middle School jazz band in 2011

• Took jazz piano lessons from Jacob Ungerleider at Contois School of Music in 2013

• Joined Flynn Youth Jazz Ensemble in early 2015

• Started studying jazz piano and theory with Tom Cleary in mid-2015

• Formed own jazz ensemble, the Sebastiaan West Trio in mid-2015

• Performed with the Sebastiaan West Trio at the Jericho Harvest Market and MMU Cabaret in late 2015

• Attended Jamey Aebersold’s weeklong jazz camp in summer 2015, playing in an advanced combo throughout the week.

• Performed with the Flynn Youth Jazz Ensemble in late 2015 and early 2016

• Started playing with young jazz group Blue Slate in fall 2016 with Benjamin King, Julian Segar-Reid and Eli Pine

• Played at Radio Bean with Blue Slate on Sept. 9, 2016

• Played at ArtHop with Blue Slate on Sept. 23, 2016

• Played at the Burlington Center Mall with Blue Slate on Sept. 30, 2016

• Played at ArtsRiot with Blue Slate on Nov. 18, 2016

• Played at Fletcher Free Library with Blue Slate on Jan. 13, 2017

• Played with BRMS jazz band in ‘Side by Five’ concert with Heliand Consort on Oct. 1st, 2016

• Played in Flynn Youth Jazz Combo at First Night on December 31, 2017.

• Played with BRMS jazz band on May 21 and June 5, 2017.

• Formed youth jazz combo Change Machine in late May, 2017.

• Played with Flynn Youth Jazz Combo at the 2017 Discover Jazz Fest on June 7, 2017.

• Played in and led Change Machine at the 2017 Discover Jazz Fest on June 8, 2017.

• Played in and led Change Machine at the James Nickerson Benefit Concert on June 23, 2017.

• Played in Green Mountain Swing at the Barre Farmers’ Market on July 12, 2017

• Played piano and trombone in concerts of the Arturo O’Farrill Latin Jazz summer intensive on August 11, 2017, and August 2016 and 2015

• Played in Green Mountain Swing Band at the Jeffersonville Festival for the Arts on August 12, 2017

• Played in and led Change Machine at the Elijah Todd Davis Memorial Fundraiser on August 12, 2017

• Played in the Green Mountain Swing Band at their annual fundraiser on August 28, 2017

• Played in the Green Mountain Swing Band at the Mad River Craft Fair on September 2, 2017

• Played in and led Change Machine at the Underhill Harvest Market on September 23, 2017

• Played in and led Change Machine at the BRMS Raise the Curtains benefit concert on December 1, 2017

• Played in and led Change Machine at the MMU Freshman Honors Breakfast on December 8, 2017

• Played in and led Change Machine at an MMU music festival on Dec. 19th

• Played in the Flynn Youth Jazz Combo at the FlynnSpace on Dec. 19th

• Played in and led Change Machine at the MMU April Cabaret on April 13, 2018

• Played in and led Change Machine at an Aim4Haiti fundraiser in Essex on April 14, 2018

• Played in and attended a masterclass by Christian Sands and David Berkman on April 15, 2018

• Played in and led Change Machine at the 2018 MMUHS Senior Tea on May 30, 2018

• Played in and led Change Machine at the 2018 Elijah Todd Davis Memorial Fundraiser

• Led an open jam evening at the Waterbury ZenBarn on September 4, 2018

• Played in and led Change Machine at the 2018 Jericho-Underhill Harvest Market on September 30, 2018

• Led an open jam evening at the Waterbury ZenBarn on October 2, 2018

• Accompanied the 2018 Middle School Districts Jazz Festival Chorus at Brown’s River Middle School on November 9, 2018

• Played in Change Machine in a collaborative session with other high school musicians in the MMUHS cafeteria on November 12, 2018

• Performed with Change Machine at a musical fundraiser during school on December 18, 2018

• Performed with Change Machine in the Flynn Youth Jazz Combo Concert on December 18, 2018

• Accompanied the BRMS Jazz Band at a school concert on December 21, 2018

• Performed with Peter Antinozzi and David Amouretti at an Essex Rotary Club function on February 13, 2019

• Performed with Lady Lemonade, a jazz-fusion collective starring Audrey Pearl, at the Light Club Lamp Shop’s Ensemble Open Mic on March 18, 2019

• Performed with Regina Carter and the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center on April 25, 2019

• Performed with Regina Carter and the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group at the International Day of Jazz Festival in Newark on April 27, 2019

• Performed with Audrey Pearl at the Light Club Lamp Shop’s Talent Show on April 29, 2019

• Performed with Lady Lemonade at Sundog Poetry’s Art, Music, and Poetry evening in Jeffersonville, VT on May 2, 2019

• Opened for Bobby McFerrin and Ranky Tanky with the Vermont All State Jazz Band on May 31, 2019

• Performed with Lady Lemonade at MMUHS’s Cabaret on July 6, 2019

• Performed at a function for the Advocates for thw Children of New Jersey at the Van Vleck House in Montclair, NJ on July 11, 2019

• Performed on National Public Radio’s Says You with Sam Keller on July 26, 2019

• Performed at Underhill Central School with Lady Lemonade on August 29, 2019

• Performed with Lady Lemonade at a house concert on August 30, 2019

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Other Piano Experience (Performing)

 

• Accompanied the BRMS Districts Jazz Festival Chorus in Fall 2015, 2016, and 2017.

• Accompanied the Inconceivable Theatre Company’s production of ‘Coraline: The Musical’ on August 19th & 21st, 2016

• Accompanied Maria Csele’s chorus in the St. Michael’s College peace concert on September 18, 2016

• Accompanied the MMU String Orchestra in the 2016 and 2017 spring concerts.

• Played piano in 2016-2017 Young Tradition Touring Group, performing 6 concerts throughout 2016 and 2017 and accompanying them on a 7-day tour of Cape Breton, playing 13 concerts throughout the week.

• Played piano in youth-led Touring Group subgroup The Hat Collection at Rock Farmer Records’ Camping & Music event on Sept. 3, 2017

• Played in a Touring Group subgroup on a representative trip to Tottori, Japan from November 13-21, 2017, performing at the Tori-Art festival there with 4 fiddle players.

• Played piano in 2017-2018 Young Tradition Touring Group, performing 6 concerts throughout 2017 and 2018 and accompanying them on an 8-day tour of Scotland in April 2018, playing 12 concerts throughout the week.

• Competed together with Alexander Allison and won second place in the 2018 Young Tradition Contest on May 5, 2018.

• Accompanied Hannah Kindt at the MMUHS Senior Recital on May 30, 2018

• Performed in a dance band at a Balfolk event at the DROM Taberna in Toronto on July 30, 2018

• Accompanied the students of Beth Telford at the Randolph New World Festival on September 2, 2018

• Led a jam session alongside other Young Tradition Touring Group artists at the Randolph New World Festival on September 2, 2018

• Played at a contra dance at the Brookfield Town Grange with Alexander Allison and Robin Russell on September 8, 2018

• Played a contra dance at Camp DREAM in East Fairfield with Alexander Allison and Robin Russell on September 22, 2018

• Played a contra dance at the Stickney Farms Barn in East Granville with Alexander Allison and Robin Russell on September 30, 2018

• Performed with the Young Tradition Touring Group at a multicultural showcase night in the FlynnSpace on December 1, 2018

• Performed with the Young Tradition Touring Group at the Bishop Booth Conference Center on December 27, 2018

• Performed with Zachary Mills, opening for traditional Swedish/French band Triton, at a Treewild House Concert on January 5, 2019

• Performed with members of the Young Tradition Touring Group at three separate events at the Flurry Festival on February 16, 2019

• Performed with students of Beth Telford at the Sharon Performing Arts Center on March 6, 2019

• Performed with the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group at the Sharon Performing Arts Center on March 6, 2019

• Performed with the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group at the Elley-Long Music Center on April 6, 2019

• Performed with Alexander Allison as the Two Tones at Shelburne Sugarworks on April 7, 2019

• Played piano, keyboard accordion, and Irish button accordion with the Young Tradition Vermont Touring Group on their 2019 tour of New York City and New Jersey, playing 10 concerts in 9 days, including the Jalopy Theatre, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and at high schools and elementary schools in Newark.

• Performed with Alexander Allison and Ben Clark at the Turrell Fund Day in Shelburne on May 18, 2019

• Opened for the Irish Trad band Réalta with Alexander Allison on August 11, 2019

• Performed at the Stowe Public Library with Alexander Allison on August 13, 2019

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Teaching Experience (Piano)

 

• Started teaching piano privately in early 2016

• Taught two new students in early 2016

• Taught one new student from September 2016 through summer 2018

• Taught two new students from November 2017 through summer 2018

• Taught three new students from September 2018 through summer 2019