July 2024

Headliner at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest in Dublin, Ireland

June 2024

Became an Academist at the Oregon Bach Festival - Berwick Academy for Historically Informed Performance

Premiere David Coonan’s Sonnets of Dark Love at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland as part of the ‘Dark Love’ concert in my five-part series, From Antiquity to Modernity.

May 2024

Performs the first movement of Johann Stamitz Clarinet Concerto in B-flat with RTÉ Concert Orchestra live on RTÉ lyric fm for their 25th Anniversary Gala

Launches chamber music series,’ From Antiquity to Modernity,’ at the National Concert Hall

March 2024

Dathanna Duo featured on RTÉ lyric fm show “Aedín in the Afternoon” hosted by Aedín Gormley

February 2024

Debut duo album, Dathanna: Hues and Shades, released on Orchid Classics label

January 2024

Served as panelist for the Sphinx Organization SphinxConnect:Amplify panel “Excellence as the Outcome of Diversity” underwritten by the Boston Symphony Orchestra

October 2023

Launch of Lecture Series

September 2023

Reviewed Ain't but a Few of Us: Black Music Writers tell their Story in Clarinet & Saxophone Magazine

March 2023

Presented “Challenging Power Structures in Music” as part of the CMC: Sparky Conversations series

November 2022

Joins Crash Ensemble’s Board of Directors

October 2022

Joins RTÉ lyric fm as the voice of Black History Month

Awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s Music Bursary

Hosts BBC Radio 3 - The American Clarinet, a three-part docuseries

September 2022

Lucerne Festival debut with Chineke! Orchestra

August 2022

Joins BBC Radio 4’s “How to Play” to offer my thoughts on Mozart’s Clarinet Conceto featuring Jörg Widmann and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

July 2022

Joins the faculty of Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA National Festival

May 2022

Joins Chamber Music Scotland’s Board of Trustees

April 2022

Presenter on BBC Radio 4 & BBC Sounds, Inside Music

January 2022

Performs as part of the Hugh Lane Gallery Sundays@Noon Winter Series 2

October 2021

Joins the International Clarinet Association’s Social Media Committee

August 2021

Cornstown House Farm debut concert series with harpist, Fiona Gryson

June 2021

Speaker on European Association of Conservatoires - Strengthening Music in Society (AEC-SMS) Podcast

April 2021

Heard on RTE Lyric FM’s “The Full Score” with Liz Nolan

Panelist on Compear Global Education Network’s panel Black Male Reflections on Identity, Self-Empowerment & Scholarship in Global Education

March 2021

Featured reviewer on BBC Radio 3 'Record Review’ w/ Hannah French

Gives virtual masterclass to the clarinet studio of Assistant Professor of Clarinet, Dr. David Cook at Millikin University

November 2020

Awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s Music Bursary

October 2020

Gives TEDx talk entitled What Words Allow: Discovering Self after Trauma at TEDx Dun Laoghaire “Exploring Wisdom”

September 2020

Cover story for the International Clarinet Association’s quarterly publication, The Clarinet

Gives virtual masterclass to the clarinet studio of Professor of Music, Clarinet Dr. Jesse Krebs at Truman State University

July 2020

Featured guest on Musici Chats podcast and vlog (formerly known as Tea for Two) with Beth McNinch

May 2020

Featured on Classically Black Podcast’s “Black Excellence” segment.

Featured on Co-Orch Dublin “Goes Viral” Masterclass Series

January 2020

Becomes a Devon & Burgani artist playing on the Fluency series

November 2019

Goes on Chineke’s first European Tour: London, Bruges, Amsterdam, Cologne, Antwerp, and Aachen

October 2019

Premieres The Ark’s show The Haircut! by Wayne Jordan & Tom Lane

August 2019

Joins Arcola Theatre’s run of Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha

October 2018

Makes Decus Ensemble debut at Southwark Cathedral London, UK

August 2018

Joins Boyne Music Festival with duo partner and harpist, Fiona Gryson

June 2018

Joins the PRIZM Music Camp and International Chamber Music Festival as faculty and performer

April 2018

Chineke! Orchestra reopens Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall

September 2017

Gent Festival Van Vlaanderen debut with Chineke! Orchestra

August 2017

BBC Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra 

Snape Maltings Proms debut with Chineke! Orchestra 

April 2017

Solo debut at University of Limerick Concert Hall in Limerick, Ireland

July 2016

Mondrian Trio takes part in the Boyne Music Festival 2016 Young Artist Programme

May 2016

Performs Mozart Clarinet Concerto with Dublin Symphony Orchestra at Christ Church Cathedral Dublin, Ireland

February 2016

Joins the RTE National Symphony Orchestra Mentoring Scheme

Masterclass performance at the National Concert Hall in Dublin, Ireland with Gottfried von der Goltz, Director of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Featured in Berlin's VAN Magazine

September 2015

Featured on BBC3 In Tune with Sean Rafferty with Chineke! Orchestra members

Joins the Chineke! Orchestra and makes Southbank Centre Queen Elizabeth Hall concert debut

June 2015

Won the Great Music in Irish Houses Residency Programme

May 2015

Chamber Music coaching with mezzo, Ann Murray, DBE, on Schubert's Der Hirt auf dem Felsen (Shepherd on the Rock) 

April 2015

Masterclass and chamber music coaching with pianist Fali Pavri, Professor of Keyboard & Collaborative Piano at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

March 2015

National Concert Hall of Ireland solo debut

February 2015

The Vogler Quartett coaches me and my chamber ensembles in Milhaud's Suite for violin, clarinet, & piano; Libby Larsen's Slang; and Beethoven's Trio for clarinet, cello, & piano. 

December 2014

During the month of December I along with the other members of the following chamber works: Libby Larsen's Slang, Ned Rorem's Ariel, John Mackey's Breakdown Tango, and Richard Bullen's Garden of Forking Paths will receive coachings with Toronto-based cellist, conductor, and Co-Artistic Director of Queen of Puddings Music Theatre, Dairine Ni Mheadhra

The ensemble in which I'm playing Milhaud's Trio will be participating in a series of masterclasses hosted by the European Chamber Music Teachers' Association at their autumn gathering in Dublin, Ireland. 

I am so honored and humbled to announce that Composer and Assistant Professor of Classical Languages at Wake Forest University, T. H. M Gellar-Goad has composed and dedicates his latest work, Forest Primeval, to me. Scored for B-flat clarinet, cello, harp/synthesizer, and drum kit, this work sets the text Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

August 2014

My first article for GoAbroad.com, Studying Abroad as a Minority, is published. Visit my author page here

May 2014 

I'm pleased to announce that I have been accepted into the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin, Ireland where I will be persuing a Recital Artist Diploma and will be serving as a 1848 Scholar & Teaching Fellow