Born Los Angeles, California, 1969
Lives in Brooklyn, New York

Mills College MA music composition : 2002
Berklee College of Music BM film music composition : 1994

private studies with Alvin Curran and Pauline Oliveros

Ostrava New Music Days with Maria de Alvear, Jean-Yves Bosseur, Alvin Lucier and Christian Wolff : 2001
International Gaudeamus Music Week with Cornelis de Bondt, Nicolas Collins, and Jo Kondo : 2000
Voix Nouvelles with Brian Ferneyhough, Toshio Hosokawa, and Johannes Schöllhorn : 1999
New Music Miami with Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Fredrick Kaufman, and Bernard Rands : 1999
June in Buffalo with Mario Davidovsky, David Felder, Vinko Globokar, and Kevin Volans : 1998

ASCAP
Meet the Composer
Dutch Ministries of Culture and Foreign Affairs
French Ministere de la Culture
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Honorary Fellowship

Santa Fe New Music : 2004
Music At The Anthology : 2001
Essential Music : 2001

Djerassi Resident Artists Program : 2002

The Juilliard School, Music Division : 2004
San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres department : 2004
San Francisco Art Institute, Interdisciplinary department : 2002
University of California Santa Cruz : 2001
New Langton Arts, San Francisco : 2001

Setting the Tone, GAle GAtes et al, Brooklyn : 2003
Strawberries and Violin, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art : 2002
SoundLAB Series, The LAB, San Francisco : 2002
Stop Making Sense, The LAB, San Francisco : 2001
Sound Salon Series, The LAB, San Francisco : 2000

Symphony Space
New Music Miami ISCM Festival
Societaetstheater, Global Ear Festival
Spoleto Festival USA
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
De IJsbreker
New Langton Arts
Intersection for the Arts
Southern Exposure Gallery
Abbaye de Royaumont
The LAB

Heard It All Before, a.o.v. Gallery, San Francisco : 2002

Slow Dive: Sculpture and Performance in Real Time, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco : 2002
Sight Unseen, Exploratorium, San Francisco : 2002
The Element of Temporary 2, CELLspace, San Francisco : 2000

de Alvear, Maria (Ed.), "The New Generation of Mystery: Artists of the 21st Century", World Editions, 2000

Bielawa, Lisa. "On Sewing Machines and Self Expression: Mapping the Future in Sound." Andante Magazine, July 2002
Chonin, Neva. "Mediations on Noise." San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 10 - 16, 1997
Derks, Thea. "Moderne muziek mag mooi zijn." Algemeen Dagblad, September 9, 2000
————. "Mooie moderne muziek." de Dordtenaar, September 9, 2000
Furtwangler, William. "Modern works an afternoon's adventure." The Post and Courier, June 5, 2003
Gervasoni, Pierre. "Coloristes ou Conceptuels." Le Monde, September 29, 1999
Goss, Thomas. "Opus 415 No.3 Part 1." 20th Century Music, vol. 5, no. 2, February 1998, pg. 18
Jones, Robert. "Packed house savors proud, fiery flamenco." The Post and Courier, June 7, 2003
Keuk, Alexander. "New Tones from the New World." Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, May 10, 2004
MacBlane, Amanda. "Ear & Eye." New York Press, vol. 16, no. 22, May 28 - June 3, 2003
Oestreich, James R. "Such a Multitude of Notes Requires Pianist's '11 Fingers.'" The New York Times,
vol. 155, no. 53,368, October 15, 2005
Reilly, Colleen. "Just in Time." The Charleston City Paper, June 11 - 18, 2003
Tompkins, J. H. "Sound Unwound." San Francisco Bay Guardian, December 2 - 8, 1998
Trotter, Herman. "Keyboard extravaganza brings festival to a close." The Buffalo News, June 7, 1998
Tudor, Silke. "House of Tudor." San Francisco Weekly, April 26 - May 2, 2000
Vermeulen, Ernst. "Bij Gaudeamus heerst de Nieuwe Gezelligheid." NRC Handelsblad, September 11, 2000
Wein, Gail. "Contemporary Music Forum." The Washington Post, November 8, 2005

Several article for NewMusicBox.org, 2004 – 2006
Chamber Music, "Multimedia: Small, Medium, and Colossal", vol. 22, no. 6, December 2005
Chamber Music, "Where Buffalo Roams", vol. 22, no. 2, April 2005
Interrobang?! #4, "genetic algorithm mandala." Decomposition, 2000