EDUCATION:

2012 - 2015    The University of Hartford the Hartt School, (Hartford, CT)

  •  Master of Music - Music Composition
  • Studied Music Composition with Ken Steen, Gilda Lyons, and Robert Carl
  • Awarded Hartt Talent Scholarship (4 - semesters)

2006 - 2011    The University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Charlotte, NC).        

  • BA in Music (composition and guitar)
  • Composition Studies with John Allemeier
  • Classical Guitar Studies with Michael Mosley and Charles Vaughn
  • Minor in Economics 
  • Magna Cum Laude - GPA: 3.815

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 Assistant Technical Director: Currents: A Concert of Electroacoustic Music - Hartford Art School, University of Hartford - November 5, 2014

Sound Design & Sound Editing: Going Global: Your Virtual Passport - Beyond Borders: Ep. 1 The         Girl with the Strange Thumbs (Pilot) - April 2014

Assistant Producer: Going Global: Your Virtual Passport - Pilot film trip in Guatemala - January to         March 2104.

Recording Session Producer: Performance 20/20 Album - October 2012

  • Brahms Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op. 115

Research Assistant/Engraver: University of North Carolina at Charlotte, December – May 2011.

  • Duties included assisting Dr. John Allemeier (theory/composition) and Dr. James A. Grymes (musicology) with identifying, reproducing, and typesetting and engraving historical scores for a new pedagogical approach that combines music history and theory

Music Workshop Instructor (Volunteer), Bettws High School, Newport, Wales, United Kingdom, August  2008 – June 2009.

  • Ran workshop in underprivileged High School for 7th grade students.
  • Part of GAP Team internship Christchurch Newport, Wales, UK

Music Camp Director: Levine Jewish Community Center, Charlotte, NC, June 2008

  • Co-directed and taught Music Camp with Dr. Sonya Gable-Wilson

Music Instructor:  Levine Jewish Community Center, Charlotte, NC, September 2007- July 2000

Sample of Performances:

A Quiet Reflection - Hartt Senior Dance Show composer and choreographer collaboration - March 7-8, 2015

Texture and Movement for Four (for saxophone quartet) - Performed by La’Ventus Quartet at the 2015 Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium - January 2015

A Moment of Repose in Expanded Time (for fixed media) - Hartford Art School: Sound Art Seminar             Concert - December 16, 2014

can you hear me? (for fixed media)  - Programmed on Currents: A Concert of Electroacoustic Music -         Hartford Art School, University of Hartford - November 5, 2014

For a Time, Times, and a Half Time (for fixed media and dance) - Hartt Senior Dance Show composer         and choreographer collaboration - March 7-8, 2014

Violent is Mind: The Weight (Concerto for amplified contrabass and chamber orchestra) - Foot in the             Door “Pocket Concerto” Concert, The Hartt School, Hartford, CT - March, 6 2013

Constant is Change (for violin, viola, violoncello, and vibraphone) - Bachelor of Arts in Music Senior Composition Recital, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC - April 2011

Specter (for two trumpets, two trombones, euphonium and tuba) - Bachelor of Arts in Music Senior Composition Recital, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, April, 2011

Jabberwocky (for saxophone quartet) - Bachelor of Arts in Music Senior Composition Recital, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, April, 2011

At Dusk (for violoncello and harp) - Bachelor of Arts in Music Senior Composition Recital, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, April, 2011

Flight of the Gryphon (for solo violin) - Bachelor of Arts in Music Senior Composition Recital, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, April, 2011

Greensleeves (for violin, viola, and violoncello) - performed by the West Point Strings, United States Military Academy at West Point, December 2010

Greensleeves (for violin, viola, and violoncello) - performed by members of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s “Bonnie Cone String quartet.”

Reading Sessions:

The Old Man and the Sea, (for wind ensemble) – The Hartt School Symphonic Wind Ensemble, March 2013

The Old Man and the Sea, (for wind ensemble) – University of North Carolina at Charlotte Symphonic Wind Ensemble, November 2011

Commissions:

Texture and Movement for Four (for saxophone quartet) - Commissioned and Performed by                 La’Ventus Quartet at the 2015 Navy Band International Saxophone Symposium

Cloud Nine (for electric guitar, electric bass, drum kit, piano, synthesizer, and voice) - composition used for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Department of Theatre performance of Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine, October 2011

Music Composed for Theatre:

I Hate Hamlet - Composed all music for The Hartt School’s production of I Hate Hamlet by Paul Rudnick - February 21-24, 2014

Cloud Nine (for electric guitar, electric bass, drum kit, piano, synthesizer, and voice) - composition used for the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Department of Theatre performance of Caryl Churchill’s play Cloud Nine, October 2011

Music for Commercial Use:

Father and Son - Music written for Inter National Bank (Texas) promotional video - August 2013

Woodcrafters - Music written for Inter National Bank (Texas) promotional video - July 2013

Sound Art Installations: 

Paper Cut - Sound art installation that utilized only sound made using paper, Hartford Art School - October 2014