About Me
a composer living in brooklyn, new york; husband, father, poet, humorist, essayist, editor, conductor, percussionist, guitarist, pianist, bassist, singer, field sound recordist, new adult, car driver*********studied percussion and composition and played football at Oberlin College, composition but not football at the University of Michigan, and percussion and 1-time pickle (that's the flag football team) at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Grew up in North Carolina, spent some time in Vienna, worked in Kansas before moving to NYC. Loves to travel and to not travel.********Has written three operas, four concertos, some orchestral works, an oratorio, solo and chamber pieces, parodies and pocket operas, zwolfe tonen, jazzy classical and classically rock music, several improv cds, 80 rock songs in ye olden style, some electronic and concrete music, and word music.********Upcoming event is the production of third chamber opera, the conclusion to the "Defenestration Trilogy," MAN: BIOLOGY OF A FALL at Kumble Theater in Brooklyn, NY. October 4-7. aka "the last thing I'm ever going to do."*******Recent performances at: Syracuse University, New York State Museum, Miller Theater, and Saratoga Battlefield. Music recorded on DAD, MSR, Cantaloupe, Equilibrium, Cadence, and 1 in the can forever at Albany. Spent, like, a year transcribing "Omgyjya Switch 7" by Aphex Twin for Alarm Will Sound who played it at the Lincoln Center Festival and hit the Billboard Classical Crossover chart.********Press: "dramatic and haunting" "blue ribbon for the most styles" "most compelling" "lacked the antic humor of the original" "music with a clear message and destination" "overly busy effort"*********Honorable Mention "Curve Stitching" 7th Grade Greenville Middle School
