Some of my compositional interests include idiosyncratic chamber ensembles, interactive electronics, improvisation, human interface devices, computer programming, video, collage, and collaborating with dancers, industrial designers, and other visual and plastic artists.
I graduated magna cum laude with a B.Mus. degree in composition from the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University–Long Beach, where I was named Composer of the Year (2011), Outstanding Graduate by the College of the Arts, and Outstanding Graduate in the College of the Arts by the Alumni Association. While at Long Beach, I served as the president of the CSULB Composers’ Guild and program coordinator for the College of the Arts, performed piano in the New Music Ensemble (Alan Shockley, director), and was awarded and an Undergraduate Research Project grant and the Paul C. Lindsey III Memorial Scholarship.
I am currently working towards a M.Mus. degree in composition at the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where I am a recipient of the Conservatory Talent and Dean’s Scholarships, a Conservatory in the Schools fellow, the vice president of the UMKC Composers’ Guild, and a performer with the Radical Art Technology Ensemble (Paul Rudy, director).
I am vice president of the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance (KcEMA), a non-profit organization that produces and curates concerts of electronic music and collaborative projects with generative and performing artists.
I have studied composition with Jim Mobberley, Chen Yi, Alan Shockley, Carolyn Bremer, Robin Cox, and Daniel Luzko, and piano with Craig Richey, Janice Park, and Christine Azzoni Dow.
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