About Me

I am a music composer and writer. My music credits include scores for short films (live action and animated), plays, podcasts, an online course, web series, an art exhibition, academic projects and commercials, along with a number of concert works. Writing-wise, I am currently co-developing and writing an original tv series.

I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with an English major and minors in Music and Global Medieval Studies. In 2019, I was awarded the prestigious Thouron Award and got my master’s degree in music composition for screen from the University of Edinburgh.

Early Music Compositions

I performed my first music composition, a piano piece entitled “Leaving,” at my sixth-grade graduation when I was 12 years old. As a freshman in high school, I began taking composition classes with a composition coordinator at the Curtis Institute of Music. While in high school, I wrote three scores for theatrical plays, including an original production I wrote with two friends for our senior class titled The People of the Iris.

At the University of Pennsylvania

At Penn, I wrote scores for several University projects and student-run productions. Three of the 14 short films I scored won awards at the Penn Student Film Festival (e.i.: emotional intelligence, The Beginning and The Seagull). I also wrote the scores for two student-run theater productions (From Up Here and The Wolves). As the music composer for the student-run creative video production agency Nexo Productions, I wrote music for 13 marketing commercials.

To graduate with honors from Penn, I composed an original score for the 1674 John Dryden semi-opera The State of Innocence and Fall of Man. Dryden’s libretto is unfinished, and a score was previously never composed. I wrote music in a traditional 17th-century style, inspired specifically by Henry Purcell and Matthew Locke.

I majored in English at Penn and absolutely loved my courses. I took classes on Modernist Poetry, 19th Century Dime Novels, Film History to 1945, John Milton and Shakespeare. Outside of my major, I took classes in Geology, the American West, Impressionist Art, Astronomy and Neuroscience. As a part of my minor in Music, I did an independent study with renowned composer Jay Reise.

I was interviewed by the 34th Street Magazine twice: in 2018 and 2019.

Summer Internships In Los Angeles

During the summer of 2015, I interned at Roger and Julie Corman’s New Horizons Pictures. Some of my duties included helped with the marketing for the upcoming film “Sharktapus vs. Whalewolf” and doing coverage of science fiction short stories to see if any could be adapted for film or television.

During the summer of 2016, I interned at Marc Platt Productions on the Universal Studios lot. My duties there included reading three screenplays a week and provided coverage of them, attending production meetings each week and doing research on a variety of subjects for future film projects.

Study Abroad Programs in London and Kenya

As a part of the Penn in London study abroad program, I studied at King’s College London during my 2016 junior fall semester. One of the courses that I took was a theatre criticism class with the esteemed theatre critic Michael Billington. As a part of the class, I got to attend dozens of theatrical productions around the city. I have experience on the stage, having performed in the lead roles in several productions at Penn, including three Gilbert and Sullivan musicals.

During the 2017 summer abroad course Penn In Kenya, I was one of eight undergraduate students to make documentary films in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya with FilmAid International. I composed the music for the films, and I also taught a workshop on film music. I am the co-founder of a new student group on campus, Penn FilmAid. In Spring 2018, we were awarded the Sol Feinstone Award for our work on the club.

Master’s Degree in Edinburgh

In 2020, I completed my master’s thesis for the University of Edinburgh, graduating in December 2020. I composed an original score for Charlie Chaplin’s classic 1917 silent short film “The Immigrant”. During my time in Edinburgh, I composed the music for an original play by Stella Green titled ‘Ezra’. It premiered at Bedlam Theatre in Edinburgh. I also conducted three recording sessions of my own work at Reid Hall. Two of the sessions were film scores that I conducted to picture. You can listen to one of them here.

While at Edinburgh, I was in the Argentine Tango Society which was incredibly fun. I had never danced tango before in my life and I caught onto it immediately. I absolutely love tango music.

Current Scoring Projects

Current projects of mine include scoring the upcoming fiction audio play “The Legend of Damarosch”, Dennis Kim’s next animated short film and a USC graduate student’s short film.

Also since 2019 I have been collaborating with Utah-based filmmakers Lucy and Max Nebeker. They own the production company Castor and Pollux Studios. Their mission is to create a localized folklore in their films that is specific to the Rocky Mountain Region. I have already scored three short films in their Rocky Mountain Mythology Trilogy (“The Pallbearer”, “The Angler” and “The Dowager”). I recently finished scoring their next short film, a folk horror film, for which I recorded crowd sounds at a basketball game and horse sounds in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

My Passion for Writing and Storytelling

During my final semester at Penn, I took an intro to screenwriting course with Kathy DeMarco Van Cleve. During the class, I wrote my first feature screenplay (a science fiction story). I am in the process of developing a television series with a friend of mine and have written the pilot episode. I also took a flash fiction course with Carmen Maria Machado. One of the short stories from that class has since blossomed into an interconnected web of horror short stories. You can hear one of these stories, titled “The Nice Stay Mote” by clicking here. You can also my other short stories, essays, blog posts and poems by clicking here.

I am also developing two feature films (one about a folk singer and the other about an art dealer).