These projects reflect how I work now: deliberately, across forms, with attention to structure, consequence, and meaning. Some are performance-based. Others are compositional or pedagogical. All are shaped by the belief that music carries responsibility—not just aesthetic, but cultural and civic.
Each project functions as a distinct environment, with its own constraints, language, and purpose. Together, they form a practice grounded in listening, clarity, and intention.
Bands and Performance Settings
My performance work is organized around a small number of focused settings rather than a standing roster of active bands. Each ensemble or format emerges from a specific musical question, period of inquiry, or set of listening conditions—and remains active only as long as it continues to serve that purpose.
Rather than treating ensembles as interchangeable vehicles, I approach them as environments: defined by instrumentation, repertoire, attention span, and social context. Some settings are ongoing and central to my current work; others resurface occasionally, or remain present as formative chapters that continue to inform how I compose, teach, and listen.
Across all of them, performance is not presentation alone. It is a site of inquiry—where structure, sound, and collective responsibility are tested in real time.
Composing & Arranging
Composition is the center of my work.
My writing spans large ensemble, chamber, and vocal music, shaped by jazz harmony, contemporary classical discipline, and an increasing emphasis on notation, form, and restraint. I’m interested in music that unfolds slowly, that values clarity of intent, and that resists excess.
Much of my recent work treats composition as witness—engaging social, political, and ethical questions through sound rather than commentary.
Guest Conducting
When I guest conduct, the focus is not control, but alignment.
My work with student and professional ensembles emphasizes listening, structural awareness, and collective responsibility within the music. Rehearsals are spaces for clarity—about time, balance, intention, and ensemble ethics—not just execution.
Workshops & Clinics
My workshops and clinics prioritize process over prescription.
I work with students and educators on improvisation, rhythm section practice, composition, and ensemble thinking—not through formulas or shortcuts, but through listening, constraint, and musical decision-making. The emphasis is on developing perception: hearing form, feeling time, and understanding how individual choices shape collective sound.
These sessions are designed to foster durable musical understanding rather than quick fixes—encouraging habits of attention that continue to inform a musician’s work long after the workshop ends.