pictured: Carla during the May 2010 Faculty Concert

Carla holds a Bachelor of Music in performance from the American Conservatory of Music, with academic credits from the University of Illinois-Chicago, where she held an Illinois State Teacher Education Scholarship. She also participated in chamber music master classes at Northwestern University. Advance studies in performance and pedagogy are with Philip Cohen, Founder and Artistic Director of the Leonardo Project: an interdisciplinary performance arts program.

She was a program organizer, researcher, and pianist for American Women Composers, Midwest concert series for several years, performing solo, chamber, and orchestral repertoire. Her compact disc includes live performances made at Preston Bradley Hall of the Chicago Cultural Center, the University of Chicago, Roosevelt University, the Three Arts Club, and other venues during the AWC series.

She served as third party adjudicator for the annual LaRock Composition Prize for Chicago College of Performing Arts-Roosevelt University students, 2000-2005.

Carla is also interested in visual arts, has a Botanical Art and Illustration Certificate from the Morton Arboretum, and in 2008, gave a recital at Cornell University for the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators’ (of which she is a member) annual conference.