hello!

I’m a creative media and music professional currently based in NYC (and with deep roots in Chicago, Boston, and Amsterdam). I spend my time working in and exploring the intersections of sound, visuals, community, and storytelling.

I’m a producer and editor of creative and nonfiction audio, podcasts, and visual media (see my resume here); a multidisciplinary musician and composer; a teaching artist and facilitator; and a U.S. Fulbright alum.

Basically, I wear many hats, and a lot of them make sounds.

musician, composer, performer

My musical practice lives on the edge of many styles, inspired by a lifelong exploration of classical, minimalism, modal music, jazz, free improvisation, electroacoustic and electronic musics, and generally the interplay between narrative and sound. I’m a classically-trained violinist, vocalist, and improviser, and also some play guitar, piano, and electronics.

A collaborative artist at heart, I play with blues/indie rock outfit Half Gringa, and perform often with musicians and singer/songwriters from around the world, including with Aisha Burns (USA), Dani Larkin (Northern Ireland), Lykanthea (USA), MICHA Música (USA), rapper/spoken word artist Orakle Ngoy (Congo), qanun player Afarin Nazarijou (Iran), vibraphonist/composer Julian Loida (USA), and with trumpeter/improvisor Kelly Bray (USA). I’ve been lucky to have performed all over the U.S. and abroad, including as the violinist and vocalist for the run of Emmy Award winning company Manual Cinema’s 2023 production of “A Christmas Carol,” at Writers Theater in Chicago, IL, opening for Iron & Wine during his Back to Basics tour in July 2023, at SXSW as a 2022 official artist with Half Gringa, at the Taste of Chicago festival (opening for The Flaming Lips), the 2018 NPR Tiny Desk Contest: Chicago Showcase, and performances at various popular venues including Jordan Hall (Boston), Joe’s Pub (NYC), Steppenwolf Theater (Chicago), The Black Box (Belfast, Northern Ireland), and at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. As a session musician, I have extensive experience both in professional and home studios, and my playing can be can be heard on many songs and albums. I have a solo electroacoustic performance project that incorporates violin, vocals, guitar, pedals, found sound, and electronics, which can be heard on my first solo EP, “For Now”.

As a composer and sound artist, I’ve written arrangements and scores for live theater and dance productions, podcasts, and audio pieces, including writing and recording original music for the Audible Original’s “Daddies” and “Marrow”. Recently, I composed and arranged music for On Air Fest 2024, which I also performed live throughout the two-day festival, and I composed and performed a live score (for electroacoustic violin, vocals, found sounds, and electronics) for documentary artist Sayre Quevedo’s live performance of “Orexis: A Manifesto” at UnionDocs in Queens, NY.

In 2022, I was selected to be a OneBeat Virtual Fellow, and participated in a two-month intensive international music residency with 35 musicians from 17 countries. OneBeat is a program of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and is produced by the NYC-based arts organization Found Sound Nation. I went to the University of Chicago for undergrad, and completed my master’s degree in contemporary improvisation at the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) in 2021, under the tutelage of many great mentors, including Eden MacAdam-Somer, Carla Kilshedt, Nicholas Kitchen, Ted Reichman, Liz Knowles, Ran Blake, Hankus Netsky, and Anthony Coleman. I’m proud to be a long-time student of violinist/composer Todd Reynolds and violinist Addison Teng.

Before returning to graduate school, I was a 2018-19 U.S. Fulbright-Schuman scholar to the E.U., where I worked with Musicians Without Borders, conducting research on how musicians work to support asylum-seekers and social inclusion practices in Europe, facilitated community music workshops, ran mobile recording studios in refugee camps in Athens, Greece, with young men seeking asylum in Europe, and performed in the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, and Greece. 

I have taught violin and music privately and in group settings, and have a special love for group creative arts facilitation. I have led classes, groups, and workshops in music, songwriting, mural-making, social circus, with both young people and adults.