Outside the Lab
Outside of research, I'm heavily interested in music. I graduated from The Juilliard School's Pre-College program in 2016 having studied violin there from 6th-12th grade. I served as the associate concertmaster (second-chair first violinist) in the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra for several concerts, I was the prinicpal 2nd violinist for a year, and I won HSO's bi-annual concerto competition in 2018, performing Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64, in its entirety.
I'm also a hobby songwriter and guitarist. You can check out my band Krohniana here!
In 2018 I was elected to the board of Steinway Series at Silo Hill (pictured on right), a non-profit concert series located in Phoenix, MD, that hosts world-class classical musicians for concerts to raise money for Parkinson's Disease research. I serve as the organization's liaison to current Parkinson's research and projects worthy of our financial support.
And lastly, some basic info about me...
I'm originally from Ann Arbor, Michigan. I moved to Pennsylvania in middle school right around when my brother and I were accepted to Juilliard. I studied violin there for seven years with Catherine Cho and Ann Setzer before graduating in 2016. I also spent summers at the Aspen and Bowdoin music festivals. Meanwhile, my brother grew up to be an absolute double bass legend.
As a hobby, I'm a collector/archivist of vintage license plates. I specialize in Colorado and Michigan license plates issued with specific county codes/allotments. I'm currently trying to assemble several complete Michigan and Colorado county sets from a few different years. My license plate archive can be accessed here.
I enjoy road tripping, songwriting, taking care of my plants (especially my hoyas--see above!), exploring rural Michigan and Colorado, and going to as many concerts as I can, especially shoegaze/dreampop shows (the pic on the right was taken from the stage at an Airiel concert, and I'm in the front row on the far left. Airiel is a very awesome Chicago-based shoegaze rock band).
