About

Hello! I'm Claire, a violinist-turned-web development student. After graduating with a degree in musicology and working as a violin/piano instructor, I decided it was time for a change. Luckily, I discovered coding and have been learning ever since! Web development allows me to apply the creativity and problem-solving skills I have cultivated throughout my music career in a new, exciting way.

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My Skills and Experience

React

Projects:

  • First introduction to React with the SheCodes weather app
  • Women composers app with React and Women Composers API
Angular

Projects:

  • Introduction to Angular with the women composers Angular app
MongoDB

Projects:

  • Used for the database for a Women Composers API
PostgreSQL

Projects:

  • Used PostgreSQL for a practice database for a Women Composers API
CORS

Projects:

  • Used in a Women Composers API project
Expo

Projects:

  • The Expo app, Expo ImagePicker and Expo Location used in a React Native Chat app
Android Studio

Projects:

  • Android Studio used to test a React Native Chat app
AWS Lambda

Projects:

  • Events app used AWS lambda serverless functions in conjunction with the Google Calendar API and Google OAuth authorization
Google FireStore/Firebase

Projects:

  • React Native chat app using Google FireStore/Firebase to store messages and images
jQuery

Projects:

  • To-do list using jQuery
  • Pokedex (pokemon index) using jQuery
Research

Projects:

  • ongoing research into women composers to create the Women Composers API
  • research and writing to create the virtual exhibit "The Rise and Fall of Blue Collar Welland" for the Welland Historical Museum
  • researched various topics related to automated testing to help write page content and blogs for Miyar
  • wrote various musicology and anthropology/archaeology research papers during my BMUS, mentored by a musicology professor
Content Writing

Projects:

  • Welland Historical Museum virtual exhibit "The Rise and Fall of Blue Collar Welland"
  • Content for the Miyar blog and webpage during my web development internship
Collaboration in ensemble work

Ensembles:

  • Regina Chamber Strings
  • UVic Baroque Collegium
  • UVic Orchestra
  • Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra
  • UVic Chorus
  • Brampton Rose Orchestra
  • quartets
  • four violin quartet
  • trio
  • duets
  • viola quintets
  • Sinfonia Allegro Lethbridge (including as concertmaster)
Teaching
  • Taught beginner piano and violin to students ranging in age from 3 to adult, privately and in a music school
Violin, Viola, Baroque Violin, Piano
  • studying violin since the age of three
  • self-taught on viola and piano
  • learned baroque violin in the UVic Baroque Collegium and the Tafelmusik Baroque Summer Institute
  • played with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra during highschool
  • earned a Bachelor's of Music in Musicology and Sound Studies (minor in anthropology) from the University of Victoria

Instructors & Masterclasses:

  • Megan Green Walburger
  • Deanna Belanger
  • Lise Boutin
  • Sharon Stanis
  • Airdrie Ignas (occassional lesson)
  • Peter Visentin (occassional lesson)
  • Lafayette Quartet (ensemble coaching & juries)
  • Chloe Meyers (UVic Collegium ensemble coaching)
  • Patricia Ahern (Tafelmusik Summer Institute instructor)
  • Masterclass with Rivka Golani
  • Masterclass with Axel Strauss