as Composer

My body of work as a composer is quite versatile. In 2022, I earned an MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts, where I studied one-on-one with some of my creative heroes, Ravi Krishnaswami, Carla Kihlstedt, and John Mallia. During this time, I began to accept and explore how to consolidate my extensive musical and creative interests. This task has proven to be, perhaps, a life-long task. In the meantime, I continue to songwrite, score for film, compose for chamber ensemble, and more.


“Scaling the Fronds of a Young Fern”

An original composition, first performed at Vermont College of Fine Arts and later premiered by City of Tomorrow at St. John’s Episcopal (NYC) on September 12, 2021.

 

Angels

“Angels” is a piece for solo electric guitar I composed in 2019. The piece surrounds its simple pentatonic theme with chromatic counterpoint, extended techniques, and segments of bitonality, while maintaining its original sweetness.

I’m currently working to adapt and re-record the piece for nylon-string classical guitar in 2026.

(Click through image for score.)

 

“Freedom’s Descent” performed by Vangeline Theatre

My original score to “Freedom’s Descent,” as heard in Vangeline Theatre’s performance at NYC Dancefest 2025. I closely collaborated with Butoh dancer and choreographer Yazmin Gonzalez to create this ambient eight-minute fixed-media composition. This collaborative process involved passing drafts of audio back-and-forth, to be danced and rehearsed to, then modified for length, sound, and movements. It all came together in just ten days.

 

“A Scrap of Winter”

I composed this choral work in 2020 during the pandemic. At the time, I was able work with some excellent singers record it in parts and later piece together their work in a DAW. Later, the work was again recorded remotely to be included in the Vermont College of Fine Arts Choral Workshop.

This short and sweet work utilizes the text from one of my poems of the same name (left). The placement of words on the page largely informed my more playful choices when separating and aligning SATB voices.

 

Scoring / Re-scoring

A re-score of a MAC advertising, originally scored by Ravi Krishnaswami.

 

A rescoring of the 1987 experimental short-film "The Dante Quarter" by Stan Breakage.

 

A conceptual scoring based on the graphic novel "Whiteout" by Steve Lieber.