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, electric bassist, 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 time the symphony performed a piece I wrote at age 14. Since then, I have attended the Brevard, Bowdoin, and Norfolk summer music festivals.
I recently graduated magna cum laude from Yale, winning the 2026 Richard B. Sewall Cup for "outstanding scholarly achievement and creative promise." Although I majored in Music, I also studied subjects including astronomy, cognitive science, linguistics, and philosophy, and used concepts in these fields to influence my music. For example, my piece Active Galactic Nuclei for orchestra and live projections was inspired by an astrophysics course I took on Einsteinian relativity and black holes. It went on to be premiered by the Boston Pops and win the 2025 Brevard Performance Prize. It has additionally been featured in the astronomy podcast Pale Blue Pod and praised by Yale University President Maurie McInnis.I am passionate about expanding the classical saxophone repertoire; my pieces Tunnel Vision and Hippocampus for sax quartet have received recognition from leading classical saxophonists across the country, and are published by Murphy Music Press. 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).
