As an orchestrator, she has worked on many of Elliot Goldenthal’s scores, (including Interview with a Vampire, A Time to Kill, Michael Collins, and S.W.A.T.), and for television (the libraries of The Young and The Restless, and The Bold and The Beautiful).

She has had her concert works performed by the Deutschen Oper Berlin Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Manhattan Symphony, amongst others. The New York Times has described her as having "a vivid imagination and a fresh lyric gift."

Academically she has earned a doctorate from Yale and a Fulbright Fellowship. She has worked closely with several prominent composers including John Corigliano, Jacob Druckman and Virgil Thomson. She has also lectured extensively in the United States and abroad, including at the Royal College of Music in London, Bristol University, Lehman College, Rutgers University, and Carleton College. For the last several years she has been teaching composition at New York University's Scoring for Film and Multimedia Program.