bahlest eeble Composer fellows
2019-2020

Kevin Day

An American composer whose music has been “characterized by propulsive, syncopated rhythms, colorful orchestration, and instrumental virtuosity,” (Robert Kirzinger, Boston Symphony Orchestra) Kevin Day (b. 1996) has quickly emerged as one of the leading young voices in the world of music composition today. Day was born in Charleston, West Virginia and is a native of Arlington, Texas. His father was a prominent hip-hop producer in the late-1980s in Southern California, and his mother was a sought-after gospel singer from West Virginia, singing alongside the likes of Mel Torme and Kirk Franklin. Kevin Day is a composer, conductor, producer, and multi-instrumentalist on tuba, euphonium, jazz piano and more, whose music often intersects between the worlds of jazz, minimalism, Latin music, fusion, and contemporary classical idioms. Day currently serves as the Composer-In-Residence of the Mesquite Symphony Orchestra.
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Danny Gouker

Danny is a trumpet player currently in Brooklyn, New York, where he is active in the improvised music scene. He released his debut album in 2014 on the pfMentum record label with Signal Problems, a long-standing group with a unique way of improvising, guided by Danny’s compositions. Signal Problems recently released a recording "Love Letter" in June 2018, a conceptual piece that seems to tell a different story each time it's performed. He leads additional projects under his name, featuring his compositions: “DG’s Misfit Toys”, and “DG’s Dog and Pony Show” and released a recording for 3 trumpets and 3 basses entitled “Sanctuary” on the pfMENTUM label in the fall of 2017.
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Steven Juliani

Steven Juliani (b. 1960) started composing music in 2016 after a long career in music as a professional horn player and as a music copyist. Since then, his music has been performed throughout the United States and in Australia. In 2020, during Covid, the Sheffield Chamber Players, performed Juliani's work, Three Melodies, in five live streamed performances. An elite group of brass musicians from the National Symphony, Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra and the President's Own Marine Band recorded and released on YouTube Juliani's fanfare for brass and percussion, 2020, and Mark Almond, Associate Principal Horn of the San Francisco Symphony, released videos of two of Juliani's works for 6 horns: Sarabande and Final Words.
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Angela Morris

If Brooklyn’s music circles draw a venn diagram, Angela Morris thrives in the loop between avant-jazz, new music, and pop. As composer and multi-instrumentalist, (known mostly as saxophonist, she grew up playing violin) she has performed throughout North America and Europe everywhere from basements to arenas. The Webber|Morris Big Band, her 18-piece jazz big band, performs original compositions by Morris and co-leader Anna Webber. The New York Times praised their “ambitious original compositions” and “jagged-edged band that has begun to turn musicians’ heads.”
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Jungyoon Wie

Based in the San Francisco Bay area, Jungyoon Wie is a Korean composer, educator, and pianist. Themes of identity have been the center of her compositional journey, and her recent research involved creating a short film in collaboration with filmmaker Toko Shiiki, dancers Rie Kim and Jun Wakabayashi, and Converge String Quartet which explores shifting dynamics of identity, otherness, and the marginalized experience of women. This film highlights a string quartet by Ms. Wie, han, which uses Korean, folk, traditional, European, American, and contemporary expressive modalities.
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Adam Zolty

Adam Zolty received his Bachelors of Music from the University of British Columbia and is currently pursuing his master’s degree in music composition at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, studying under Ted Hearne and Sean Friar. Adam’s music has been performed by many esteemed Canadian ensembles and performers including: NU:BC Ensemble, Phoenix Chamber Choir, Vancouver Chamber Choir, UBC Symphony, the UBC Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and Heidi Krutzen. Adam’s piece: Three Expressions for Piano Septet, performed by NU:BC Ensemble, received the Serge Garant Award at the 2018 Socan Awards. Recently, Adam was accepted into the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music in Boonville, CA where he wrote: Variations on Angry Themes for master performers Haruka Fujii on percussion and Leo Eguchi on cello. Adam strives to create musical experiences that are in tune with his sensitivity to physical motion, inspiring, creating, and guiding his compositions.
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Samantha Boshnack

Whether blasting through the sonic explorations of her alternative chamber orchestra, B’shnorkestra, or leading the 7-piece Seismic Belt or her quintet, Samantha Boshnack’s compositional voice pulses with vitality. Her intention is to charge orchestral and chamber precision with the syncopated rhythm of her personal style. Drawn to it’s vibrant music scene, Boshnack moved to Seattle in 2003 after graduating from New York’s Bard College. The subsequent seventeen years find her actively bolstering the thriving musical community and creating ensembles, commissions, recordings and performances both locally and nationally. She is a part of the acclaimed composers’ collective Alchemy Sound Project. She has also toured extensively in the zany, postmodern Reptet. Boshnack’s compositions have been performed by the Northwest Symphony Orchestra, Washington Composers Orchestra, Seattle Jazz Composers Ensemble, Marina Albero/Boshnack duo and more.
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Dustin Carlson

Dustin Carlson is a Brooklyn based guitarist and composer who has toured all over the USA, Europe and Canada, playing ambient noise music in his collaborative project F$F, playing the "space-country cosmic-cowboy//utter ambiance of complete oblivion” solo music of Shakes/the Noise of Wings, or working as a sideperson playing jazz pop soul rock etc. His record “Air Ceremony,” due to be released on Out of Your Head Records on November 2nd, features his long form compositions for sextet.
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Iman Habibi

Iman Habibi, D.M.A. (Michigan) is an Iranian-Canadian composer and pianist, and co-founder of the piano duo ensemble, Piano Pinnacle. He has received commissions from The Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Symphony Orchestra, twice attained the First Prize at the SOCAN Awards, as well as International POLYPHONOS award, and The Vancouver Mayor’s Arts Award.
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Kai Ono

Kai Ono is a composer-pianist, raised in the bustling suburbs of Irvine, California and currently living in the mosaic city of Queens, New York. He likes the color grey, the sound of laughter, and games. Kai is able and mostly willing to play several genres of music on the piano he is familiar with, but his primary specializations are jazz and classical. In the past, he’s won some awards in festivals and competitions such as the West Virginia Intersection of Jazz and Classical Festival, the Rosalyn Tureck Fourth International Bach Competition, and the Celia Mendez Young Artists’ Beethoven Competition. Although he really enjoys playing in smaller house venues, he’s also been on bigger stages like the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, the Jazz at the Lincoln Center, and the Laeiszhalle of Hamburg.
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Tanner Porter

Tanner Porter is a composer-performer, songwriter and visual artist from California. In her “original art songs that are by turns seductive and confessional” (Steve Smith, The New Yorker), Tanner explores her passion for storytelling. Tanner’s work has been performed at New Music Detroit’s Strange Beautiful Music 9, by Miami-based chamber orchestra Nu Deco Ensemble with conductor Jacomo Bairos, at the 2018 New Music Gathering, and at Carnegie Hall. Recent orchestral works have been performed by the New York Youth Symphony with conductor Michael Repper (co-commissioned with the Interlochen Center for the Arts as a part of their First Music program), the Albany Symphony with conductor David Alan Miller (commissioned for the 2019 American Music Festival and written in collaboration with librettist Vanessa Moody), by the University of Michigan’s University Symphony Orchestra with conductor Kenneth Kiesler, and by the Yale Philarmonia with conductor Julian Pellicano.
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Samuel Winnie

Sam is an Atlanta-based Composer, Musician, Producer, and Audio Engineer. Sam specializes in writing bespoke music and sound design for games, podcasts, and other sorts of digital media. His music spans a wide range of styles from classical chamber ensembles to indie rock and synth pop.
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Olivia Davis

Olivia Davis grew up in Eugene, OR where she began her studies in violin performance at the age of nine years old. She attended the University of Oregon, receiving her B.M. in Violin Performance and Composition in 2013. Olivia studied violin performance with Kathryn Lucktenberg, and composition with David Crumb, and Robert Kyr. In her last year of studies at the University of Oregon, Olivia began playing viola, studying with Leslie Straka. As a a very versatile performer, she occupied multiple positions both as violinist and violist during her time in Eugene: associate and assistant concertmaster, principal second violinist and principal violist of the University of Oregon Symphony Orchestra, principal second violinist of the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble (ECCE), concertmaster and principal second violinist of the Collegium Musicum, and principal violist for the Oregon Bach Collegium. In the third year of her undergrad, she co-founded the Ova Novi Ensemble (ONE) whose mission is to perform works by women and women-identifying composers. Membership for Ova Novi consisted of, and welcomed all genders.
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Cody Forrest

Cody W. Forrest (b. 1988) is a composer and educator, fascinated by the ineffable in music and its ability to forge pathways between souls. His works explore the human impulse to share stories, the interplay of musical dichotomies, and a diverse spectrum of expressivity. Cody is currently composer-in-residence with the Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra and has been commissioned by Phoenix, Dinosaur Annex, conductor Daniel Hege, and the Cochran Wrenn Duo. His music has been performed by Boston Music Viva, the Cassatt String Quartet, and internationally by violinist Léo Marillier. He has received the Florence Price fellowship from the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, the Classic Pure Vienna International Composition Competition grand prize, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award, and was selected for the 2015 EarShot New Music Readings. In 2016 he served as composer-in-residence with Chamber Music Campania in Varano, Italy. Teaching appointments have included Northeastern University and New England Conservatory. Cody currently resides in Brookline, MA.
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Grey Grant

Grey Grant (she/they) is a composer, performer, and librettist, whose work frequently involves a transdisciplinary, collaborative effort between herself and other artists. Much of her current work revolves around identity, the environment, and place. Her music: “[Crafts] a work that is moving, evocative and, by the end, exhausting (in the best sense)” and write “demanding music with precision and nuance.” (Michigan Daily)

Grey’s recent work includes: Short Songs to Sing Aloud composed for Leandra Ramm as part of #GLFCAMGIGthruCovid, and for the cliff-sides carved by lakes, for the lakes carved long ago, commissioned by the Tesla String Quartet, and Voice Chant I, commissioned for Detroit Women’s Chorus’ Finding Your Voice conference January 2020. Grey’s opera: Michigan Trees: A Guide to the Trees of Michigan and the Great Lakes Region (2019), is an opera in 11 parts that acts as a meditation on internalized transmisogyny, and self-acceptance through the haze of a mythologizing of queerness in the upper peninsula of Michigan. It was composed for Fifth Wall Performing Art’s inaugural season.
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Douglas Hertz

Douglas Hertz (b. 1993) is a composer, percussionist, and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. Hertz uses sound as a medium to investigate experiences ranging from the personal to universal and from the physical to the spiritual. Through his work, he seeks to connect with audiences in a way that helps them better understand themselves, one another, and the world they inhabit. His work has appeared on programs presented by the Aries Composers Festival, Midwest Composers Symposium, Nief Norf Summer Festival, Atlantic Music Festival, the Dynamic Music Festival, Bard College’s Music Alive series, the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, the Walden School, Periapsis Music and Dance, and the Deer Valley Music Festival. His work has been performed by Ensemble Dal Niente, Wet Ink Ensemble, Da Capo Chamber Players, American Symphony Orchestra, University of Michigan Philharmonia Orchestra, Vanguard Reed Quintet, Up/Down Percussion Quartet, BrassTaps Duo, Portland Percussion Group, and Front Porch Ensemble, among others.
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Dawn Norfleet

Described by Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley as "a renaissance woman," Dr. Norfleet is a flutist, vocalist, composer and educator. Her music is steeped in traditional jazz, but without boundaries of genre. She is influenced by artists from Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock to Stevie Wonder and Steely Dan. Her passion for music reaches into the realm of education and she is an advocate for quality arts programs for youth, particularly in underserved communities of color. Before heading off to ivy-covered colleges of the East Coast, she was a proud product of Los Angeles public schools, where music had still been a strong part of the educational system. Music in the schools profoundly shaped the direction of her life, supplementing the interest planted in me by her musical family. Her hope is for the return of arts instruction for all communities. When implemented wisely, the arts can help to make a bigger, better world with more creative, empathetic people.
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Nicky Sohn

From ballet to opera to Korean traditional-orchestra, the wide-ranging talent of composer Nicky Sohn is sought after across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Characterized by her jazz-inspired, rhythmically driven themes, Sohn’s work has received praise from international press for being “dynamic and full of vitality” (The Korea Defense Daily), having “colorful orchestration” (NewsBrite), and for its “elegant wonder” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), among many others. As a result, Sohn has enjoyed commissions and performances from the world’s preeminent performing arts institutions, including Stuttgart Ballet, National Orchestra of Korea, Minnesota Orchestra, Sarasota Orchestra, Aspen Philharmonic, and New York City Ballet.
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Adeliia Faizullina

Adeliia (Adele) Faizullina (b.1988) is a Tatar composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and quray player. As a composer, she explores cutting-edge vocal colors and paints delicate and vibrant atmospheres inspired by the music and poetry of Tatar folklore. The Washington Post has praised her compositions as "vast and varied, encompassing memory and imagination." Her recent commissions include works for Jennifer Koh, the Tesla Quartet, Johnny Gandelsman, and the Metropolis Ensemble. Her works have also been performed by the Seattle Symphony, cellist Ashley Bathgate, the Del Sol Quartet, and Duo Cortona. She won the Seattle Symphony Celebrate Asia Competition in 2019, she won first prize in the Radio Orpheus Young Composers Competition in Moscow in 2018. Adeliia received her BM in Voice in Kazan, Russia, and BM in Music Composition in Gnessins Russian Academy of Music. She has an MM in Music Composition from the University of Texas at Austin, and in 2021 will be pursuing her PhD in Music & Multimedia Composition at Brown University.
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Molly Joyce

Composer and performer Molly Joyce was recently deemed one of the “most versatile, prolific and intriguing composers working under the vast new-music dome” by The Washington Post. Her music has additionally been described as “serene power” (New York Times), written to “superb effect” (The Wire), and “unwavering” and “enveloping” (Vulture). Her work is concerned with disability as a creative source. She has an impaired left hand from a previous car accident, and the primary vehicle in her pursuit is her electric vintage toy organ, an instrument she bought on eBay which suits her body and engages her disability on a compositional and performative level. Her debut full-length album, Breaking and Entering, featuring toy organ, voice, and electronic sampling of both sources was released in June 2020 on New Amsterdam Records, and has been praised by New Sounds as “a powerful response to something (namely, physical disability of any kind) that is still too often stigmatized, but that Joyce has used as a creative prompt.”
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Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim

Seo Yoon Soyoona Kim is a composer and music educator based in Baltimore, raised in Korea and Russia. She likes observing nature, walking in historic sites, immersing in old and new stories, and often draws inspiration from these activities. Seo Yoon's compositions have been performed widely in the U.S. and internationally at festivals including the 30th Seoul Music Festival, International Festival of Children’s Musical Theatre at Novosibirsk, Longy’s Divergent Studio, and ensembles including Density512 and Pique Collective. Seo Yoon was one of five composers selected in the Peabody Opera Études Project in 2019. The resulting opera Dear Father, both music and libretto written by Seo Yoon, received its premiere by the Peabody Opera Department. She is a composer fellow of Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and the winner of a 2019 Student Commissioning Project of the American Guild of Organists. In 2021, Seo Yoon released her first visual album, Hearing Stars with CNSNC composers, where she is a founding member.
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Aeryn Santillan

Aeryn Jade Santillan (she/her) is a composer, guitarist, and bassist whose work is heavily influenced by the DIY punk scene and actively aims to blur the lines between band/ensemble and song/composition. Aeryn performs bass in the New Jersey based, internationally touring screamo quartet, Massa Nera. Along with composer/guitarist Andrew Noseworthy, she co-founded this place is actually the worst, an experimental mathcore duo, and post-genre DIY label, people | places | records.
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Aida Shirazi

Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Aida Shirazi is a composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music.  Shirazi’s music is described as”unfolding with deliberation” by The New York Times, “well-made” and “affecting” by The New Yorker, and “unusually creative” by San Francisco Classical Voice. In her works for solo instruments, voice, ensemble, orchestra, and electronics she mainly focuses on timbre for organizing structures that are often inspired by Persian or English languages and literature, as well as Iranian classical music.
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Kyle Tieman-Strauss

Kyle Tieman-Strauss (b. 1994) is a composer of music for stages and headphones, as well as a passionate advocate for contemporary music. His music has been commissioned and performed by ensembles such as ETHEL; Bearthoven; JACK Quartet; Conduit; Manhattan Saxophone Quartet; Cadillac Moon Ensemble; and the NYU Symphony Orchestra, where he held residencies in 2013-2014 and 2016-2017. His first chamber opera, These Walls, written in collaboration with librettist Matthias Hope Naroff and soprano Emilia Donato, investigates the interior life of the mid-century American serial killer Rhonda Belle Martin. It was premiered in May 2017 in New York.
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Shane Cook

Composer and percussionist Shane Scott Cook (b. 1994) was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. His work has been performed by New Jersey Percussion Ensemble, Joseph Morris, Ilan Morgenstern, Hindustani vocalist Saili Oak and tabla virtuoso Shawn Mativetsky. A 2017 summa cum laude graduate from Biola University and Torrey Honors Institute, Shane has enjoyed performances of his compositions across the nation, with recent collaborations in Hindustani and Western classical crossover leading to performances of his work in Mumbai, India. His work has won awards from the likes of Chorus Austin, Hot Springs Concert Band, and Biola Conservatory of Music. In addition to concert music, Shane frequently works as a film and media composer. His teachers in composition include Robert Denham, Reena Esmail, Alex Lu, and Mike Watts, with studies in percussion under Brent Kuszyk and Cliff Hulling. Shane is passionate about education, especially in the arts, and currently teaches percussion at Bolingbrook High School. When he is not teaching, composing, or performing, he enjoys literature, film, nature, and spending time with friends and family.
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Clifton Ingram

Clifton Ingram is a DC/Boston-based composer and performer (Rested Field, guitar/electronics), whose music aims to approach and retreat from itself along fault lines of musical and extra-musical. Clifton’s music revolves around the delicate obstinance of hidden objects, aberrant mutations and self-devouring ornamentation, and obsessive canon-like structures — the masked expression of an unreliable narrator.
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Andrew Rodriguez

Andrew Rodriguez’s (b. 1989) interest in music began with stints as the guitarist for various metal/hardcore bands as a teenager. This path culminated with three full-length albums as one of the main songwriters for the hardcore/punk band Close Your Eyes on Chicago-based label, Victory Records. Rodriguez’s history as a performer sculpts the core of his musical identity. Having spent over three years touring the country, Andrew’s passion for the DIY scene continues to guide his creativity. The embedded experiences of performing intense and passionate music night after night have led to a musical language that is both raw and dramatically expressive. His music combines a personal history and love of indie rock with a traditional education in composition, and is often expanded upon with the use of live electronics.
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Rajna Swaminathan

Rajna Swaminathan is an acclaimed mrudangam (a barrel-shaped South Indian drum) artist, composer, and scholar. Rajna has been described as “a vital new voice” (Pop Matters), creating “music of gravity and rigor… yet its overall effect is accessible and uplifting” (Wall Street Journal). In her music and research, she explores the undercurrents of rhythmic experience and emergent textures in collective improvisation.
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Patricia Wallinga

Composer and mezzo-soprano Patricia Wallinga specializes in writing and performing English-language art song, opera, and contemporary choral music. Her work has been referred to as "powerful" by Peter Jacobi of the Bloomington Herald-Times and "damn brilliant" by composer and conductor Eric Whitacre, and she has had performances across the continental United States as well as in Europe. Wallinga’s 2014 song cycle for tenor and piano, Dreams in War Time, received a 2015 BMI Student Composer Award, and its companion choral cantata Portraits of Wartime won the 2013 NOTUS Student Composition Contest and was performed and recorded by Indiana University’s elite contemporary vocal ensemble NOTUS, in which she was a member from 2013 to 2017.
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Kerwin Young

Kerwin Young is a prolific international composer and recording producer, whose music has served as social commentary the world over since 1989. From Public Enemy to the Symphony, Kerwin Young has gone from member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Public Enemy to becoming a renowned orchestral composer of more than seven epic symphonies. His works have been performed by Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Music From China, Kansas City Symphony, Chicago Modern Orchestra Project, University City Symphony, and other well-known ensembles.
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Monica Chew

Monica Chew (https://monicachew.com) is an Oakland pianist. In 2017 she released her first solo album, Tender and Strange, featuring works by Bartók, Janáček, Messiaen, Takemitsu, and Scriabin. A “gifted player with an affinity for deeply sensitive expression” (Whole Note, June/July/August 2018), her playing is “wonderfully delicate, like tissue” (International Pianist, July/August 2018). She started composing in 2017 and couldn’t be happier about it. She premiered her first songs for soprano and piano in 2018 and completed her first commission for Left Coast Chamber Ensemble’s Intersection 2019 workshop. She loves playing chamber music and received a Zellerbach Family Foundation award for her work with Minsky Duo, which she co-founded in 2016. Prior to 2015, she neglected piano for nearly a decade to work as a principal software engineer on security and privacy at Mozilla and Google after receiving her Master of Music from SF Conservatory of Music and a PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. She lives in Oakland with her husband, an 1899 Steinway B, a clavichord, and a disused violin.
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Eliana Echeverry

Eliana Echeverry is a Colombian composer, arranger and producer. She studied composition and orchestration at Conservatory of National University of Colombia under the guidance of Gustavo Parra and Moises Bertran. She also studied psychology at the National University of Colombia. For four years she was a composition assistant and arranger for Antonio Arnedo, her mentor in jazz music.

Eliana is one of the most versatile composer and arranger in Colombia. She has arranged music for several artists in different styles such as Antonio Arnedo (jazz), Hugo Candelario (Colombian music), Lucía Pulido, Laura y la Máquina de Escribir (rock), Aterciopelados, N – Hardem (hip hop), Bogota Symphonic Orchestra, Bogota Chamber Orchestra, Camerata Olav Roots, Unitas Ensemble based in Boston, Khemia Ensemble based in Missouri, among other projects.
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Jonathan Mitchell

Jonathan Mitchell is a Chicago-based composer. He studied classical composition at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music with Michael Slayton, Michael Rose, Stanley Link, and Carl Smith, and graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Music in Composition. Since then, he has worked as a Content Creator at Edify Technologies, Inc., composing music and leading curricular development for Edify’s educational app MusiQuest. 

Jonathan has had works performed by various players at the Blair School of Music; by Harvard University’s Choral Fellows, under the direction of Carson Cooman; and by La Banda de Conciertos de San José, under the baton of Thomas Verrier. He has also worked as a musical arranger and workshop leader with El Sistema Nacional de Educación Musical (SiNEM), an organization based in Costa Rica. Outside of composing, Jonathan spends his time listening to classic soul music, writing short bios, and trying to find pants that fit.

Ben Shirley

Drawing inspiration from a life lived on the edge, Ben Shirley is a Los Angeles based composer-orchestrator who is known for succeeding against most odds.  After spending more than two years as a resident of the Midnight Mission, a homeless shelter on Los Angeles’ notorious Skid Row, Benjamin has emerged a respected composer, orchestrator, and arranger who brings a distinctive perspective, and relentless work ethic to film composition and concert music.  

Today, Ben’s classical concert works are commissioned by prominent ensembles with multiple premieres on the horizon which COVID put on hold this past year. He has also scored documentaries and works as an orchestrator for television and film. Orchestration credits include CBS Television: S.W.A.T., Fast and the Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, and Umbrella, an award winning and Oscar® qualified CGI animated short film.
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Jeff Winslow

eff Winslow, a fourth-generation Oregonian, seeks the musical heart of natural and psychological landscapes, with emphasis on vocal and piano works. He is a founding member of Cascadia Composers, a chapter of NACUSA centered on the lower watershed of the Columbia River, and serves on the board as secretary / treasurer. His work has been performed by fEARnoMUSIC, Portland Vocal Consort, and the Resonance Ensemble, and also at Cascadia Composers, Seventh Species, Cherry Blossom Musical Arts, and Oregon Bach Festival concerts, as well as several other locations around the region, often with the composer at the piano. A recent piano work, "Lied ohne Worte (lieber mit Ligeti)" received honorable mention from the Friends and Enemies of New Music, a New York-based composers' group. He studied music and electronics at the University of California at Berkeley, getting serious about composition in the mid-90's as High Modernism finally relinquished its death grip on the world of art music.
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