Olivia’s work is often collaborative, cross-genre and experimental and frequently makes use of technology and multimedia. Olivia is technical director and percussionist of FLYDLPHN, a mixed chamber sextet based in southeastern Michigan dedicated to commissioning, accessible collaboration, diverse representation, and electronic performance. She also performs with her duo VIRID, an amorphous percussion and multimedia duo that exists between experimental, contemporary classical and popular music genres. Olivia is a member of the percussion trio Brain Pocket as well. Through VIRID, she co-produces the concert series VIRID and Friends in Ann Arbor, which hosts local artists and early-career musicians for intimate concerts of contemporary and electronic music.

Currently, Olivia is the Assistant Director of Gamelan Kyai Telaga Madu and Gamelan Biru Madu at the University of Michigan. She is a 2024 Graduate Fellow in the Center for World Performance Studies with a research focus in Balinese Gamelan.

Olivia was a New Music / Research Artist at the 2024 Percussive Arts Society International Convention, presenting her commission of Ancel Neeley’s “37 Across 39 Down.” She has also worked on notable projects such as John Luther Adams’ GRAMMY-nominated recording of “Sila: The Breath of the World,” the premiere of Michael Gordon’s “Field of Vision,” and “A New Age for New Age, Vol. 5.” A collaborator at heart, she has premiered chamber and solo works by many composers, recently including Nicole Knorr, Jake Ellzey, Chloe Liuyan Liu, and Jeremy Esquer.

As a composer, songwriter and producer, Olivia is inspired by everything and everything. Having written songs since for as long as she can remember, Olivia combines her percussion training, her love of electronic production and her songwriting experience to make music that swims amongst both popular and unconventional idioms. Most recently, this is exemplified by her 35-minute record, MIDDLES. Olivia’s work has been showcased internationally, on radio shows like Brighton, UK’s 1BTN.FM, Latvia’s NABA FM 95.8 and Berlin’s Refuge Worldwide radio. Olivia has been a finalist for the 2022 Petrichor Music Competition, and her work has been featured in the 2023 Maker Music Festival. Her music has been a part of Untergeschoss der Pandora’s 2023 Pandora’s Music Box advent calendar. 

Currently, Olivia is pursuing a Masters of Music in Percussion Performance at the University of Michigan, where she also received her Bachelor’s degree in 2023. She is presently studying with Douglas Perkins and Ian Antonio, and has studied previously with Tom Sherwood, Michael Gould, Jonathan Ovalle and Jeremy Epp.

View her curriculum vitae here and her full repertoire list here.