I’m spending April 2019 up in the Catskills Mountains at the CATWALK Institute working on a theatrical adaptation of Beowulf. My...

After I returned from Hamburg back to Oslo in early April, I hit the ground running by rehearsing all the music for my final Fulbright...

After my Northern Lights trip to Tromsø, I started working on an arrangement of Edvard for a smaller instrumentation, along with found...

After returning from a whirlwind journey to Austria and its surrounding countries this holiday season (I took the month to travel to...

It’s almost winter break, and I’m about to leave for a new chapter of my European adventures —exploring some of central Europe—Austria,...

I’m living in Oslo with a Fulbright Grant, working with jazz composer Helge Sunde, writing a large composition inspired by my Norwegian...

Oslo’s 2017 international contemporary music festival, Ultima, has recently come to a close. Ultima is a nine-day festival filled with...

The second week of the International Gugak Workshop began with a free day, which I used to explore the city via its expansive metro...

Week 1 in Seoul began with a night out exploring Gangnam (the namesake of Psy’s “Gangnam Style”)—it’s a sleek, Time-Square or...

These next two weeks, I’ll be in Seoul, South Korea, studying at the International Gugak Workshop at the National Gugak Center, an...

As I write this, I'm sitting in a courtyard of my university that has a strong vibe to it. It's a place that for me as a particular feel....

THE. MUSICAL. IS. COMPLETE. Or, abandoned, as they say. But, it’s safe to say all the music is written. The process has been a whirlwind...

This week, I finished a draft of “Yes, No, Please, Thank You,” a song performed by the hermit—the lead in the musical—and a cohort of...

I'm in the thick of writing a musical right now, and I want to give all you an idea of my process for those of you curious, or for those...

Day 2 started with a check-in with the mentor composers and George Manahan, violinist Bob Chausow, percussion Jim Saporito, and James...

What a day. In typical American Composers Orchestra fashion, the faculty and guest speakers packed our day full, from 9 am to 4 pm,...

This week I’ll briefly review two scores I particularly enjoyed. The first was that of The Guest, a genre mash-up film from Adam Wingard,...

This week I'll take a look at Lenny Abramson’s Frank, which I saw at the O Cinema in the Wynwood Arts District, Miami. The film is graced...

I'll kick off my film music review series with Jeff Grace's score to Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves, which I saw this weekend at Cosford...