I have been playing violin since the age of four for 20+ years. I started playing urban genres of music after graduating college in 2010.

I have been going to the symphony since I was a child but my first concert outside of classical music was in 2009 with my friends to go see Sxip Shirey at The Great American Musical Hall. Seeing him create an entire symphony of sounds and urban beats with a loop station prompted me to go out right after seeing the concert and buy a cheap loop station for myself.

I use a Realist RV-4 Pro Acoustic-Electric Violin made by David Gage and NS Designs. I'm not sure what to say about my favorite piece, I love playing Big Poppa, Show Goes on, and Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites so I guess those are my top 3.

Love Bach. Love Beethoven. Love Vivaldi. But yeah, BACH. Also, more recently, I am a huge fan of Paul Dateh.I saw a video of him on YouTube and it inspired me to pick up my violin again after college.

Essentially, I am a solo performer but I have sat in for bands. I currently play occasionally with Alex Carbonel and her band and DirtyCello with Rebecca Roudman. I have a jamband that I play in occasionally in Sunnyvale tentatively called "Key Ingredients", and I have sat in for SweetHayaH of San Jose. I play shows myself in bars, cafes, restaurants. More notably, I have performed at the Palace of Fine Arts SF, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, and Grand Sierra Resort in Reno.

As of right now, I played at Zellerbach Hall at UC Berkeley for as a competitor in Kollaboration SF 3 and I played to an audience of about 1200 people with media as well. I played for only 5 minutes but it felt like 2 and it was the most fun I've had EVER. Everyone in the audience had glowsticks and it was completely dark and I just remember seeing this wave of glowing green and red as I was playing. It was one helluva rush.