Piano

As a scholar in the Emerson Program, Madeline is currently studying classical piano with David Deveau. Most recently, she is the recipient of the 2017 Jack and Edith Ruina Scholarship award. Prior to attending MIT, she studied piano under Tomoko Harada. In the past, Madeline won various regional and national awards for classical piano; some notable competitions that she won being the 2016 NJMTA Young Musicians Piano Competition, the 2017 NJFMC Joseph Israel Bookstaber Memorial Award Competition, and the 2016 NLPA National Young Virtuosi Recital Competition. Madeline has also attended numerous summer music festivals and piano programs, including the Bowdoin International Music Festival (2015, 2016), the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Piano Program (2014), and the International Institute for Young Musicians (2013).

Madeline has also participated as a pianist and keyboardist in various chamber and large ensembles, including her high school jazz band and pit orchestra. In 2015, her high school piano quartet won grand prize in the NLPA Young Artists Chamber Music and Ensemble Competition, performing the third movement of the Brahms Piano Quartet in C minor. Madeline had the privilege to perform Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with her school wind ensemble in the spring of her senior year. As the pianist of the 2016-2017 New Jersey Youth Symphony, Madeline performed Stravinsky's L'Oiseau de Feu and Bernstein's Symphonic Dances from West Side Story during the ensemble's summer tour of Budapest and Vienna, where the orchestra, under the direction of Jeffrey Grogan, tied for first place in the 11th Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival and Competition.

More detailed information regarding past repertoire and accomplishments in classical piano is available upon request. Select recordings are also viewable on Madeline's YouTube channel.

Instrumental

Madeline began her bassoon studies in the spring of her freshman year of high school and became principal bassoon of her school wind ensemble and orchestra by junior year. She has also participated in the Central Jersey and New Jersey all-state wind ensembles and orchestras since her sophomore year. Though Madeline participated in the MIT Symphony Orchestra as a bassoonist in her freshman year, she is currently not actively pursuing bassoon studies. Additionally, Madeline has performed on flute and alto saxophone with her middle and high school concert bands, and on mellophone with her high school marching band. In her free time, Madeline enjoys playing guitar and ukulele.

Vocal

For all four years of high school, Madeline sang in her school's award-winning a cappella choir and held the position of soprano one co-section leader in her senior year. From sophomore year onwards, she also participated in the Central Jersey and New Jersey all-state mixed and treble choirs. At MIT, Madeline has been able to continue her vocal pursuits as a mezzo and the assistant director in the Chorallaries of MIT, MIT's oldest co-ed a cappella group. Madeline has arranged music for the group and helped to plan the group's musical direction with the music director.