After completing a BMus in Jazz Studies from Humber College in Toronto, she studied composition in New York on a grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. Since 2005, she has led the 20-piece Tiny Alligator Large Band in Toronto, composing, conducting and producing concerts. She has served as a producer on several jazz orchestra albums (Darcy Argue, Daniel Jamieson). In 2012, she was in residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts and the MacDowell Artist Colony. Follow @tinyalligator