She was a founding member of the North Shore Pro Musica chamber ensemble, and a longtime cello teacher on Long Island.

She attended the University of Kansas (where her teacher was Raymond Stuhl) and the Manhattan School of Music,[3] where she was a student of Bernard Greenhouse.

[4] While at Kansas, she won the Naftzger Award, which offered a cash prize from a promising young artist and a guest solo with the Wichita Symphony.

[9] After 1965 she devoted much of her time to teaching cello privately on Long Island, later joining the faculty of the Stony Brook University Pre-College Music Program.

[3] In 2009, she was honored with a resolution in the New York State Senate, recognizing her as "as recipient of the Visual and Performing Arts Award by the Town of Brookhaven Office of Women's Services.