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Objective: Musical Director

EDUCATION

Yale School of Music

MM candidate

2011-2014

Composition with Martin Bresnick, Chris Theofanidis, IngramMarshall, Aaron Kernis, David Lang and Ezra Laderman.

Yale University

BA candidate

Music major

2007-2011

Musical theater composition with Andrew Gerle andJeanine Tesori.

COMPOSITION PROGRAMS

Bowdoin International Music Festival,with Samuel Adler and Claude Baker,ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellowship, 2014.

Freie Universität Berlin,with Samuel Adler, 2013.

Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, New Music Workshop, with Martin Bresnick. Fellowship in composition, 2013.

Boston University Tanglewood Institute,Young Artists Composition Program,with Martin Amlin and Richard Cornell, 2013.

Yellow Barn Young Artists Program, Amherst, Mass., with Stephen Coxe and guest composers Sebastian Currier, Howard Frazin, Lewis Spratlan, and ChrisTheofanidis, 2012.

New England Conservatory Preparatory School,private lessons with Rodney Lister, 2012.

SELECT COMPETITIONS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

Albany Symphony Orchestra Composer to Center Stage Program, 2013;one of three young emerging composers selected; included mentoring by John Corigliano, resident composer.

ASCAP Foundation Young Composer Fellowship, 2013; BowdoinInternational Music Festival.

ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award,Winner, 2014; Honorable Mention, 2013; Finalist, 2013, 2012, 2012.

Abraham Beekman Cox Prize,2012; awarded by the Yale Department of Music for composition.

Cambridge Chamber Singers 12th annual Composition Competition, Winner, 2012.

Vancouver Chamber Choir 2012 Young Composers Competition,Second-Place, 2012.

young ARTS, sponsored by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts; Honorable Mention, 2012; Merit Award, 2012.

From the Top, 2011; a National Public Radio program,interview and performance of Serenade for Strings.

MUSICAL THEATER

Composer for Wise Blood, full-length musical performed at Yale, 2013; an upcoming project Funk Pond (withMarshall Pailet); and co-composer for three annual Yale Shows (parodies).

Musical Director for numerous productions at Yale, including Where It’s At by M. Pailet (2013); Office Space TheMusical by Zak Sandler (2012); and conductor for Pippin (mainstage production, 2012).

Orchestrator for Bunkerville (2013, music by Mark Sonnenblick) and Usher (“Outstanding Musical,” FringeNYC 2012).

RECORDING

From the Top at the Pops, Telarc CD, 2013. Serenade for Strings performed by Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kunzel.

CONCEIVER, CONDUCTOR, ANDCO-COMPOSER

SIC InC, A classical ensemble of Yale College musicians whose performances combine amplified chamber music with contemporary rock-concert lighting and video projections.

Performances at the Off-Broadway Theater, Yale; Trinity School, New York City.

Le Poisson Rouge, New York City; and Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale. 

Supported by a Sudler Grantfrom the Office of Masters, Yale College.