EXPERIENCE & AFFILIATIONS |
Co-Founder and Board Member - JACK
Independent Composer/Designer - New York/California Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego Director - International School of Music, Washington DC Instructor of Woodwinds and Theory - International School of Music, Washington DC Member - International Association of Computer Music |
SOFTWARE |
Pure Data
MaxMSP Ableton Live Reaper Avid Pro Tools Meyer Sound MAPP online XT ArrayCalc Vectorworks Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Premier Pro) Qlab Git Android Studio Xcode Sonic Visualizer |
RECENT MUSICAL PERFORMANCES |
COOL PLACES I'VE PLAYED
The Loft, University of California San Diego Center for Interesting Noises, UC Irvine Kava Lounge, San Diego IDEAS Festival @ CALit2 Conrad Prebys Music Center, UCSD this, Institute for Creative Movement Joe's Pub, Manhattan Danspace, Manhattan Dixon Place, Manhattan ABC No Rio, Manhattan Spectrum, Manhattan Under St Marks Theater, Manhattan Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Manhattan The Secret Theater, Queens Goodbye Blue Mondays, Brooklyn 739 Franklin, Brooklyn The Collapsable Hole, Brooklyn JACK, Brooklyn WKCR, Columbia University La Maison des Etats Unis, Paris FR La Sorbonne, Paris FR Conservatoire Nationale de Region Bolougne-Billancourt, Paris FR Russian Cultural Institute, Washington DC Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Spring MD Northwestern University Eastman School of Music Catholic University of America South Carolina University Youngstown State University West Virginia University Bowling Green State University |
COMMISSIONS & DEDICATIONS |
Nathan Davis - Cipher for baritone sax and electronics
Robert Morris - Knot Lilacs for solo alto saxophone Thomas DeLio - Transparent Wave VII for solo alto saxophone Kyle Johnson - The Time Then Was Now, literally for saxophone and mixed media Stephen Lilly - Edgeplay for saxophone and MAX Chan Ji Kim - Bamboo Forrest for saxophone quartet (s,a,t,b) Andrew Mead - Schema solo soprano saxophone, Schemata (2 performers: s,s,a,a,t,b,b,bs) Heather Figi - Moon Big soprano saxophone + string quartet Blair Goins - Concerto for soprano saxophone & chamber ensemble |
EDUCATION |
Doctor of Music in Performance and Pedagogy
University of Maryland Mentors: Dale Underwood and Thomas DeLio Master of Fine Arts - Sound Design University of California San Diego Studies of aesthetics and engineering with Shahrokh Yadegari Independent research in interactive real-time processing with Miller Puckette Studies of music analysis with Roger Reynolds Studies of directing with Gabor Tompka Master of Music University of Florida Mentor: Jonathan Helton Thesis performance of works by Wuorinen, Berio, Lauba, Rosse, and Deall Diplome des Etudes Musicale Music Performance and Chamber Music Conservatoire Nationale de Region, Paris, FR Mentor: Jean-Michel Goury Premiere prix a la unanimite de la jurie Tours of northern and southern France with the Grand Ensemble des Saxophone Boulogne-Billancourt. Bachelor of Music Bowling Green State University Mentor: John Sampen Thesis performance of works by Lauba, Desenclos, Husa, Dahl, Denisov, Stockhausen |