Music, Sound, Noise
I’m a contemporary composer based in Boston writing primarily for film, as well as dance and other collaborative arts.
I’ve written and/or orchestrated music for over fifteen PBS productions and independent films, including Edgar Allan Poe: Buried Alive, Henry Ford, “War of the Worlds,” The Wall: A World Divided and Our Mockingbird.
Films I’ve scored include The Rabbi Goes West (which enjoyed a long festival run including screenings at DocNYC, a premiere at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, The Vancouver International Film Festival and The Boston Jewish Film Festival), “Weather and Chaos: The Work of Edward N. Lorenz,” the first about Lorenz produced with the participation of scientists who worked alongside him (I generated elements of this score using chaos math and the visualizations in the film) and The Way Home: Tibet in Exile, a feature about three generations of women in a Tibetan family confronting the changes and future of their culture.
Aside from film, I’ve written for theater (Punctuate4‘s 2019 production of “No Victors, No Vanquished,”) and collaborated with the Urbanity Dance Company (Best of Boston, 2015, 2017), creating music for performance pieces, participating in ‘test kitchen’ classes and speaking to students in their choreography workshops.
I’ve also created music and/or sound design for video game companies Earplay, Inc. and Lantana Games (Videri String Quartet Plays Children of Liberty), and composed music for commercials for Nationwide Insurance and the Independent Film Festival of Boston.
After graduating in film scoring and jazz piano from Berklee College of Music I cut my teeth for over ten years as an assistant to veteran, award-winning composer John Kusiak. I’ve also studied classical composition at Longy School of Music and have a BS in Physics with a minor in Astronomy from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.