Hey there! I'm a composer from Tucson, Arizona based in New Haven, Connecticut. Depending on the day, I'm also a classical or jazz pianist, pipe or Hammond B-3 organist, choral singer, French horn player, or South Indian Karṇāṭak musician.
At age five, I started making up my own music at the piano and never stopped. I spent five years in the Tucson Symphony Orchestra's Young Composers Project, during which the symphony performed a piece I wrote at age 14. I have since attended the Brevard, Bowdoin, and Norfolk summer music festivals.
I recently graduated magna cum laude from Yale. Although I majored in Music, I also enjoyed studying subjects like astronomy, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy, and using concepts in these fields to influence my music. For example, my award-winning piece Active Galactic Nuclei for orchestra and live projections was inspired by an astrophysics course I took on Einsteinian relativity and black holes. The piece went on to win the 2025 Brevard Performance Prize and be performed by the Boston Pops. It was then featured in the astronomy podcast Pale Blue Pod and praised by Yale University President Maurie McInnis.I am also passionate about expanding the classical saxophone repertoire. My piece Tunnel Vision for sax quartet was published by Murphy Music Press, and I plan to write more saxophone music over the coming year, including for the national competition-winning Synchrony Quartet.
I have six toes on my left foot, which I use regularly to climb trees, and occasionally to walk 70 miles from New Haven to New York City (for fun). My parents are independent documentary filmmakers.
