I write music that seeks to engage, enrich, and disturb.
For me, music is not only about beauty, craft, or expression. I want it to demand attention and create an experience that lasts beyond the performance itself. Sometimes that means drawing a listener toward something unfamiliar; sometimes it means challenging what they thought they understood. These three ideas—engage, enrich, and disturb—have become the foundation of how I think about my work.
Invite the listener in.
I want my music to be vivid, immediate, and emotionally direct, whether the listener is deeply familiar with contemporary classical music or encountering it for the first time. I often work with strong contrasts, concentrated musical materials, visceral gestures, and harmonic worlds that move between the familiar and the unstable. I am interested in music that captures a listener’s attention quickly but also rewards repeated and closer listening.
Leave the listener with something lasting.
I want listeners to take something away from the experience of my music—even if that is simply the memory of how a performance made them feel. Enrichment does not have to mean instruction or explanation. It can come through beauty, intensity, curiosity, recognition, or an encounter with something unfamiliar. I want the experience of the music to remain with them after it ends.
Unsettle what feels settled.
By disturb, I do not mean provocation for its own sake. I mean the kind of discomfort or instability that can make a listener more alert or cause them to reconsider something familiar. Some of my work responds directly to social and political subjects, including public memory, environmental crisis, violence, grief, and transformation. Other pieces approach disturbance more abstractly through instability, rupture, distortion, or moments in which beauty becomes uncomfortable or uncertain.
Music can entertain, but it can also disorient, clarify, provoke, console, and reveal. My goal is to write pieces that do more than simply pass through the listener—that ask for attention, offer something worth carrying away, and leave something behind.