Composer, pianist, music educator, and polymath based in New Haven, CT.
Featured piece: ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI, premiered by the Boston Pops
"I was completely entranced. I hadn’t imagined that music could capture the dynamic environment of a black hole so beautifully. The graphics you connected to the musical themes were just right."
- Yale Professor Meg Urry, the astrophysicist who originated the theory of Active Galactic Nuclei
"Your interest and devotion to this particular act of creation is one of the highest compliments I think I've ever received as a teacher. I won't soon forget it."
- Yale Professor Charles Bailyn, "Introduction to Relativity and Black Holes"
Praised by David Ibbett, Resident Composer at the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Praised by Yale University President Maurie McInnis.
Winner of the 2025 Brevard Performance Prize.
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Upcoming Projects
Saxophone Works and Film Scoring
New work for the Synchrony Quartet
A 10-minute piece for the national competition-winning saxophone quartet, premiering spring 2027 in Chicago, IL
New solo work for Christopher Tejeda
A 10-minute piece for a recorded album of all newly commissioned music with environmental themes, releasing 2027
Composer for A Life Abstract
A new 30-minute documentary about a Tucson, AZ-based visual artist, directed by Alex Leyton and edited by Jacob Bricca, ACE
Composer's Assistant for Clown School Confidential
A new feature documentary about a clown school in Los Angeles, directed by Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe, edited by Jacob Bricca, ACE, and composed by Ted Reichman
