Education:
PhD in Music Composition, Princeton University (in-progress)
Master of Music in Music Composition, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2002)
Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance,
Susquehanna University (2001)
Additional Sudies:
Aspen Music Festival and School, Schumann Composition Fellow (2003)
Tanglewood Music Center, ASCAP/Bernstein Composition Fellow (2001)
Major Teachers in Composition:
Osvaldo Golijov (private student)
William Bolcom, Michael Daugherty (University of Michigan)
Louis Andriessen, Michael Gandolfi (Tanglewood Music Center)
David Mattingly, Patrick Long (Susquehanna University)
Awards and Honors:
Recipient of a 2006 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award for Red Scare Sketchbook
Recipient of the 2004 Harvey Gaul Composition Prize from the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
Recipient of a 2004 BMI Student Composer Award for Piano Trio
Recipient of the 2004 Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival
Recipient of a 2003 Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Recipient of a 2002 BMI Student Composer Award for hope in the proles.
Stephen P. Freidler Award for Outstanding Advancement of the Arts, Susquehanna University (2001)
The American College Theater Festival (ACTF) award for outstanding sound design and original music (2000)
Performances of Note:
Edinburgh Fringe Fest
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble
2006 Look and Listen Festival
University of Michigan Symphony Band
Montreal Fringe Fest
Saxonian Academy of the Arts, Dresden
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Tanglewood's Seiji Ozawa Hall
Aspen Music Festival
Inside/Out at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival
Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC
Joyce SoHo, NYC
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