Education
She began playing the piano at the age of four. At sixteen, she entered the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany, as a student of Lieselotte Gierth and Gerd Lohmeyer. After receiving her Masters Degree, she continued her studies at Indiana University where she received an Artist Diploma as a student of Menahem Pressler.
She also obtained a Graduate Chamber Music Diploma from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
In 2005, she received her doctoral degree from the Graduate Center of the City University of New New York Her doctoral dissertation was titled "The Piano Chamber Music of Maurice Ravel." Additionally, she studied with Rita Sloan, Joseph Kalichstein and Lev Natochenny.
