Inside the Music Concerts
One of my great passions is to converse with the audience about music and the process of music making. During my fellowship at New World Symphony, I produced a few innovative interactive concerts designed to foster deeper audience engagement and transform the ways in which listeners experience and connect with classical music.

These Inside the Music concerts at the New World Center gave the audience an inside look of what goes through a musician’s mind when performing a classical music piece. Some of the topics that were tackled were the rehearsal process of a chamber group, how sounds are produced on musical instruments, and how seating arrangements affect the sonority and visual experience for the audience. I utilized technological and visual devices to stimulate the audience and have the music reach all of their sensory receptors.

Upon joining Baylor University, I expanded my creative and scholarly work by developing collaborations across artistic disciplines. Through the Within the Music concert series, I established new partnerships and created innovative interdisciplinary performance experiences that engage audiences in ways that extend beyond the traditional classical music concerts.

Further detailed explanations of each program with a link to each performances is included down below:

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​Inside the Music- Are you listening? (2015)
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During this one hour long interactive concert, we gave the audience an opportunity to have a closer look into the rehearsing process of a chamber group and how we reach our artistic decisions. In my effort to include the audience in this process, I created an online application on which the audience got to vote in real time on which way the want us to interpret and perform the piece by the end of the concert. Over 100 audience members participated in the live voting process and created a once-in-a-lifetime performance of Beethoven Trio op. 11. 


​Inside the Music- May I have the best seat in the house please? (2016)
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During this one hour long interactive concert, we invited the audience to explore what is that "best seat" in the house which we all are hoping to get. We examined and explained how the performers determine which seating arrangements to use on stage and how it affects the sonority and visual experience for the audience.The performers on stage wore GoPro cameras on their heads so the audience could “see things through their eyes”. Moreover, the audience had a chance to move around, switch seats and compare their concert experiences from the different seating areas at the concert hall. 


​Inside the Music- Are you feeling it? (2017)
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During this one hour long interactive concert, we invited the audience to see how we produce sound on different instruments, with high rate frame cameras capturing these vibrations. We also explored how the actual vibrations create sound and interact with the human senses, particularly “feel.” Through performances of chamber works by Beethoven, Mozart, and Carter, we discussed how the different instrument timbres blend and create new sounds together. 


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Within the Music - Discover the Colors of Music (2020)
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During this one hour long interactive concert, we tackled the idea of colors in sound. Through the performance of works by Crusell, Dohnanyi and Bates, we explored how one can change the color of the sound they produce on their instrument to better serve the ensemble and musical expressions of a given piece.

​This concert was partially funded with the help of the Houston Art Alliance Grant.​
Within the Music - It Must
​Be Love (2021)
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​An interdisciplinary collaboration with Meredith Sutton (dancer) and Steven Pounders (actor) from Baylor University’s Department of Theatre Arts for two different pieces on the program. Featuring works by Schumann, Cahuzac and Spohr.
Within the Music - Sounds from Home (2023)
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An interdisciplinary collaboration with students from Baylor University’s Department of Theatre Arts that celebrated the voices of immigrants reminiscing about their homeland via spoken word and classical music. Performed works by Mieczysław Weinberg, Paul Ben-Haim, Eva Wasserman- Margolis and Maroun Azar (World Premiere).


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Within the Music-
Let's Change the color (2024)

An interdisciplinary collaboration with lighting design students from Baylor University’s Department of Theatre Arts, that invited the audience to experience classical music not only with their aural sense but also with their visual sense. Through the works of Franz Schubert, Krzysztof Penderecki, Gérard Pesson and Johannes Brahms this concert challenged the perception and expectations of the audience.
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A Night of Fairy Tales (2025)

A Night of Fairy Tales 
concert celebrated the rich tradition of fairy tales in German culture through classical music and other works of art. This interdisciplinary collaboration featured musical selections alongside artistic projects created by German language students in Dr. Sharon Weiner’s class, taking the audience on a magical journey through the centuries of fairy tale storytelling. 

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