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brief bio

I am a composer of both electronic and instrumental music, an audio software programmer, and sometimes a music hardware designer. I grew up in southeast PA, outside of Philadelphia, and now live in Gainesville, FL. My compositions have been played at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, ICMC, Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, the Boston CyberArts Festival, and the Dartmouth Festival of New Musics, among other spots. I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Composition at the University of Florida. Before coming to Florida, I graduated from the Electro-Acoustic Music masters program at Dartmouth College. At Dartmouth, I explored the topic of Discoverable Composition, which deals with the composition of pieces where an audience is not explicitly aware of music happening in their environment. In undergraduate school, at the University of Virginia, I studied music, psychology, and astronomy; the combination of which has led me to approach experimental music as a unifying field of study. Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to study music with Jon Appleton, Newton Armstrong, Matthew Burtner, Charles Dodge, Paul Koonce, Larry Polansky, Paul Richards, James Paul Sain, and Judith Shatin.

compositional interests

I am interested in how music can interact with extra-musical ideas. My compositions often aim to represent or construct extra-musical analogs directly through the compositional process. I focus on exploring physical phenomena, experiences, and relationships through compositional forms, methodologies, and performance dynamics. As a result, tension emerges between the abstracted experience of music and the composition's concrete underpinning. It is this tension that I find interesting and fruitful.