Composition

I am a collaborator/composer-performer/artist/teacher. I have been involved with music for most of my life, and I hold a Masters Degree in Music Composition from the University of California, Berkeley, where I was Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow. I have been commissioned by The Miami Symphony Orchestra and my music has been performed around the United States and in Italy. I try to dedicate my work-energy to creating experiences that encourage creativity, analysis and open minds — to that effect, I am the founder of an educational organization called Human Garden.

Recently I completed a year of teaching in the classroom, where I taught 5th Grade English and 12th Grade Music History/Philosophy at an awesome school in Caracas, Venezuela; I designed the curriculum for both grades. Additionally, I have about a decade of experience teaching a variety of subjects to private students of all ages. I really like teaching, learning, and making things!

Concerts 

Education

M.A in Composition
2011-2013 University of California, Berkeley
Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow
Composition studies with Ken Ueno, Franck Bedrossian, Cindy Cox, Edmund Campion. Computer Music
studies with David Wessel and Edmund Campion at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies
(CNMAT). Improvisation with Myra Melford.

B.M. in Composition
2006-2010 University of Miami
Magna Cum Laude, ’Outstanding Graduate’ in Composition Composition studies with Lansing McLoskey
and Scott Stinson. Jazz and Instrumental Performance with Ney Rosauro, Jason
Furman, and Whit Sidener.

Teaching Experience

2014 Human Garden – founder
Educational organization focused on innovative workshops in creativity, the arts, and intellectual
expansion.

2013-2014 Colegio Integral El Avila – Caracas, Venezuela:
5th Year (last year of high school) Music History and Philosophy Teacher: Originally designed
curriculum and activities covering: 20th—21st century music (from ‘pop’ to ‘academic’),
musicological thinking, students’ original creative projects.

2013-2014 Colegio Integral El Avila – Caracas, Venezuela:
5th Grade English Teacher: classroom teacher for two sections of 22 students each. Originally
designed curriculum and activities for: Spelling, Reading Comprehension, Grammar, Oral Expression,
Creative Project

2010 Falcon Cove Middle School – Weston, Florida Principal percussion instructor at
music summer camp

2009 Miami Youth Symphony – Miami, Florida
Master Classes on contemporary composition and percussion performance

2005-2014 Private Music Instructor – South Florida
Individual and Group Lessons in Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Piano, Theory, Composition, Songwriting

Compositions (Partial List)

2014 Cisnes / improvisations for voice, percussion and guitar

2012 Verdes Pájaros / violin, flute, and feedback system for Ensemble
Pamplemousse
Premiere: April 2013 Center for New Music, San Francisco CA

2012 Compi (video work)

2012 Mercedes / amplified snare drum and video
Premiere: April 2012 CNMAT, UC Berkeley

2010 (control) / violin, cello, and snare drum
Premiere: July 2010 soundSCAPE festival Maccagno, Italy

2010 Move, tongue / bass clarinet and electronics
Premiere: November 2010 University of Miami

2009 La Luz y Su Desvío / orchestra (commission from The Miami Symphony
Orchestra, winner of University of Miami’s Concerto Competition for orchestral work)
Premiere: October 2009 Festival Miami, Gusman Concert Hall, University of Miami

2009 0. / solo piano
Premiere: December 2010 Clarke Concert Hall, University of Miami

Activities

2012-2013 Center for New Music – San Francisco, California
Assistant Concert Curator, Volunteer 2012-2013 Berkeley New Music Project
Organizing performance of graduate student works by the Eco Ensemble and David Milnes

2012 Grant writing and co-organization for West Coast concert tour by NYC-based
Ensemble Pamplemousse

2011 Organization, management, promotion for Composer- Improviser Concert at CNMAT
(Center for New Music and Audio Technologies at UC Berkeley)

2010 Music for international ad campaign for TACA Airlines

2010 Participant in soundSCAPE New Music Festival in Maccagno, Italy

2009 Commissioned by The Miami Symphony Orchestra for an Orchestral work (La Luz y
Su Desvío)