About Me
I am a composer passionate about exploring experimental concepts and guiding listeners toward new and transformative experiences. My music is known for its vivid colors and beautifully nuanced textures, often emerging from an atonal palette and deeply influenced by cognitive science, psychology, and the sense of unity created through shared musical experience.
My works have been performed at conferences and festivals across Europe, Asia, and the United States, and I have collaborated with ensembles and soloists including Irvine Arditti, Transient Canvas, MIVOS Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Ricochet Ensemble, and The American Brass Quintet, among others. My piece Paradoxical Friction for bass clarinet and marimba received an ASCAP Plus Award in the concert music category, and my piano work Hypochondriasis is published by Abundant Silence.
Currently, I am the residency composer for the precept.concept.percept XIV International Residency (Bled, Slovenia & Online), composing Chromatic Echoes for chamber ensemble, which will premiere in June 2026 during Bled Contemporary Music Week. I also serve as Composer-in-Residence for Grande Gioia Music in Seoul, completing GUMIHO, an opera in two acts.
Alongside my compositional work, I have taught composition, music theory, musicianship, songwriting, world music, music appreciation, piano, and keyboard skills at Hawkeye Community College and Kansas City Kansas Community College, where I developed and expanded music programs, received the TEACH Award (Teaching Excellence And Colleague Honor), and was honored with the Students’ Choice Teaching Excellence Award each semester. I have also taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
I earned my B.A. and M.A. in Music Theory and Composition from Stony Brook University and my doctorate in composition from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where my primary teachers included Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, and Sheila Silver.
I am a composer passionate about exploring experimental concepts and guiding listeners toward new and transformative experiences. My music is known for its vivid colors and beautifully nuanced textures, often emerging from an atonal palette and deeply influenced by cognitive science, psychology, and the sense of unity created through shared musical experience.
My works have been performed at conferences and festivals across Europe, Asia, and the United States, and I have collaborated with ensembles and soloists including Irvine Arditti, Transient Canvas, MIVOS Quartet, PUBLIQuartet, Ricochet Ensemble, and The American Brass Quintet, among others. My piece Paradoxical Friction for bass clarinet and marimba received an ASCAP Plus Award in the concert music category, and my piano work Hypochondriasis is published by Abundant Silence.
Currently, I am the residency composer for the precept.concept.percept XIV International Residency (Bled, Slovenia & Online), composing Chromatic Echoes for chamber ensemble, which will premiere in June 2026 during Bled Contemporary Music Week. I also serve as Composer-in-Residence for Grande Gioia Music in Seoul, completing GUMIHO, an opera in two acts.
Alongside my compositional work, I have taught composition, music theory, musicianship, songwriting, world music, music appreciation, piano, and keyboard skills at Hawkeye Community College and Kansas City Kansas Community College, where I developed and expanded music programs, received the TEACH Award (Teaching Excellence And Colleague Honor), and was honored with the Students’ Choice Teaching Excellence Award each semester. I have also taught at the University of Missouri–Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance and the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
I earned my B.A. and M.A. in Music Theory and Composition from Stony Brook University and my doctorate in composition from the University of Missouri–Kansas City, where my primary teachers included Chen Yi, Zhou Long, James Mobberley, Paul Rudy, and Sheila Silver.
