- It was the first week that I was here that I was sitting in my first ensemble and I'm still in that and I found my groove, I found what I like to do. I was playing next to upperclassmen the first week of school.

- So what really drew me to opera was basically being dramatic with your voice. Coming here it's just propelled me into the thing that I want to be, just three years here and I feel like I'm on top of the world.

- Think about putting just a little bit of vibrato on them. I enjoy the one-on-one contact with students the most. From independent lessons, which is a real treat where you just have an individual that you can devote your whole attention to, and that's probably my favorite part of the whole process.

- Before I came to York I was like, oh you just sing a note and it sounds pretty, but here it's like precise, you know what's going on, you're involved in the process of making music.

- The music program completely just engulfs you. They throw out pages and pages of things that you can do and it's hard to pick a couple because there's so many that you sit there and go oh that looks really cool, oh I would really want to do that and you think in the back of your head I know I have four years but I wanna do that now. ♫ Double, double, toil and trouble ♫

- To a Freshman who's coming in, I would encourage them to take advantage of any opportunity that they can get their hands on and so from day one, we try to get them involved.

- York is a good place to come because you can get Juilliard level performance skills at a relatively low cost and make best friends at the same time. That is a wonderful reason to come to York.

- To be able to come here and say I wanna be working in a recording studio after four years, from day one, you can be working in a recording studio so when you leave here it's just second nature.