One of the earliest graduates of Carnegie Hall's Ensemble Connect fellowship in 2009, Caitlin discovered her passion for arts advocacy, and has been nurturing her skill for designing interactive concert experiences ever since.
For more than 15 years, Caitlin has been facilitating performance environments that encourage personal connections to classical music and beyond. She has been a visitor to schools, universities, hospitals, retirement homes, correctional facilities, museums, and concert spaces as a performer and teaching artist for numerous ensembles, including the New York Philharmonic, IRIS Orchestra, and the affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall, Decoda.
While a member of Decoda, Caitlin designed and led bespoke interactive performances for school children and adult audiences alike across the US, UK, Japan, and South Africa, as well as musical workshops for college students in the US and UK. A longtime member of IRIS Orchestra, she has led many interactive chamber music performances for K-12 students throughout the greater Memphis area.
Closer to home, Caitlin regularly visited many rural school districts throughout the Adirondack region of New York State to give workshops and interactive performances while working alongside members of The Learning Arts. During her two-year fellowship with Ensemble Connect, Caitlin was a teaching artist at PS 153 in Harlem, where she co-designed a culminating project called the MUSIC (Musically Uniting Students in Correspondence) Exchange: a mentorship side-by-side performance of students and professional musicians, including a penpal letter exchange program between students and their music mentors.
