Trista is a professional harpist and recording artist who performs for private and corporate events including weddings, anniversaries, holiday celebrations, and more. She offers non-traditional music lessons out of her home just north of Columbus, Ohio and is a fine artist. Her unconventional approach to performing and teaching results in a full performance & touring schedule and a thriving creativity coaching practice, which she runs through her art and music studios and often in collaboration with other creatives.

Her repertoire includes classical, Brazilian, jazz, popular selections, and her own compositions. In addition to performing solo, she has played with the jazz improvisational Nova Madrugada, alternative folk rock Luceys Maze, art pop rock Flotation Walls, and others. In the Fall of 2011, Trista toured with Deborah Henson-Conant, offering performances and a creativity workshop they developed together called Fireworks for the Creative Spirit. Trista is also the U.S. representative of the International Jazz Harp Foundation.

Trista and her younger sister were born in the luscious beauty of Philomath, Oregon, a great contrast to the arid Franktown, Colorado environment where she found herself six years later with a new baby brother.  Eventually her family made its way across the United States to settle amidst the great sprawl that is now central Ohio.