Recognition

Awards, press, and invitations to evaluate

Academic honors, interviews, and invitations to judge festivals and run auditions for other musicians.

Awards and honors

Recognition at Dallas Baptist University

AwardMusic Business - Recording Achievement AwardDallas Baptist University · May 2025

Alpha Chi National academic honor societyBy invitation only, for the top 10% of juniors, seniors, and graduate students
Alpha Sigma OmegaChristian honor societyScholarship, leadership, and service · Nominated by Dr. Uriah Rinzel, 2024
Dean’s List and Honors ListMultiple terms
Audition ScholarshipDepartment of Music · Edmund F. Boettcher Foundation
GPA 3.77 / 4.00BA in Music Business

Recognition and media

Radio Shiga, Japan, 2019. Editorial profile in the Arts and Culture section, with a public recommendation for professionalism, technique, quality, and reliability.Also mentioned in Radio Shiga’s profile of drummer Amanda Imamura
Rádio Estação FM 104,9, Brazil, 2021. In-studio interview on music education, work in Japan, and the move to the United States.
CastBrothers Podcast, 2022. Episode 034, a 92-minute interview on teaching, production, and mastering.

Invited to run worship-team auditions at Casa do Avivamento Church in 2025 and again in 2026.
Festival judge across four editions at a congregation of more than 2,000 members in Brusque, Brazil.