This new renaissance woman demonstrates her remarkable breadth of talent with a Ph.D. focusing on both biological and psychocultural aspects of behavior, and a post as tenured professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury. She does not see this as conflicting with her artistic endeavors, but actually enhancing them. Science and music form a continuum. The sculptor works with gravity. And today's electronic music, as yesterday's Stradivarious, emerge from the exquisite craftsmanship that technology makes possible.
All art is in nature.
She produced her first formal composition, a waltz, at age 6, for which she also wrote the lyrics. Most of her formative musical training took place in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where she spent part of her early youth. Piano and voice where her focus. Although gifted with a soprano voice, she did not pursue an operatic career, to the disappointment of her father. She thought it to be too confining.