I am a media composer, artist, songwriter, producer, and keyboard/synth player.  I completed my Masters at the University of Miami Frost School of Music in the Media Scoring and Production Program studying with Carlos Rafael Rivera and Camilo Rodriguez.  I completed my bachelors in music as a Composition and TIMARA (Technology in Music and Related Arts) double major at Oberlin College and Conservatory.  Before Oberlin, I graduated from the Juilliard Pre-College program in Composition.  I have released four albums and two singles that range in genre diversity onto all streaming platforms.  One of these is a concept album called "On the Bridge" diving into my life growing up as an autistic person in a world not built for us.  My most recent release was a 2024 Christmas album consisting of a theme and variations of an original Christmas melody sonically set in my personal interpretation of the holiday season in the early 2000's.  Along with my own music, I have partnered and produced for various artists from classical to pop and everything in between.  ​My skills and experience are in diverse musical areas, ranging across experimental music, progressive rock, solo and ensemble performance, free improvisation, interface design, multi-media composition and performance, orchestration, and music theory.  I have written music for large and small ensembles, solo instruments, live electronics, installations, and electroacoustic music.  My compositional style is driven by research and experimentation with sound and synthesizers, sonic environments, extended performance techniques, DSP programming, film scoring, and song-writing/poetry composition.  As a performer and improviser, my primary instruments are piano, keyboards and synths.

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          Because of my extensive training during the five years at Juilliard, I was able to test out of all levels of music theory classes at Oberlin and pursue the highest level courses in theory. This lead me to be employed by the conservatory to teach theory as a tutor to all levels of students at Oberlin.  My most exciting job at Oberlin was being a research assistant, working with TIMARA’s technology director Abby Aresty, in the Crafting Sound Lab at the conservatory.  Specifically, I worked on a project called Of Earth and Sun, which is an audio installation in Pittsburg, PA that creates a sonic environment of nature sounds that mimic the nature of the city using weather and time information.  At Frost, I have scored various short films, and produced for many songwriters.  One of my collaborations was with fellow film composers Luis Alacan and Simon Villarreal to score a feature-length thriller called Art of Diversion.  This is one of two feature-length films that I was a composer for.  Currently, I am both an adjunct professor at the University of Miami Frost School of Music teaching their unique "synthestration" class; and a music teacher at Fusion Academy Pembroke Pines, teaching middle-high school students in a one-to-one setting.  I am also the lead audio editor for the highly successful movie podcast called Eye of the Duck: hosted by Adam Volerich and Dominick Nero​.

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         My most ambitious project involves a sensory-friendly early music teaching program called Noise and Buttons.  During my fall, winter, and spring breaks from school at Miami and Oberlin; I taught part-time at Mercer County Special Services School District (MCSSSD) in New Jersey, working with disabled children.  In the summers of 2022 and 2023, I served as the music teacher for both preschool and high school students during MCSSSD's Extended School Year (ESY) program.  This experience, coupled with my education in interactive media at Oberlin, inspired the development of Noise and Buttons, an inclusive music education project.  Noise and Buttons aims to make music education more accessible for neurodivergent students by integrating sensory-friendly hardware and software interfaces.  I created a generative synthesizer program in Max MSP that allows users to manipulate tempo, rhythm, timbre, and harmony using a physical button box.  Each aspect is labeled with a color and corresponds to the button box I built to work with the app. Red is tempo, yellow is rhythm, green is timbre, and blue is harmony.  Pressing the buttons quickly results in random value changes, and long presses will give users more precise control.  During my time as a summer music teacher at MCSSSD, I utilized this app with my students to teach my music classes.  I made an eight-part lesson plan where I used musical examples generated from Noise and Buttons to teach the different musical aspects to my students.  Many of them were able to grasp the concepts very easily with this project, and the physical box proved to be extremely accessible for them.  As their final project, every class used the skills they learned from my teachings and the app to create their own songs.  The app is now available as a web application for anyone to try, and the project was a recipient of the 2025 SEAMUS Grant Fund.​

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         Along the way, I have been recognized by various contests and programs.  My music for film has been recognized at various film festivals on award winning short films.  Among these, I am a 2019 highSCORE Festival alumni, BUTI (Boston University’s Tanglewood Institute) alumni as a composition program attendee, and a Curtis Institute SummerFest composition program alumni. I was also a winner of the American Composers Forum’s NextNotes high school composition contest in 2018 and was a five time finalist for the ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers Awards.  My work has also been performed at the NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival.​

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