BIOGRAPHY
I am a musician, ethnomusicologist, arts manager, singer-songwriter, recording artist, filmmaker, and percussionist trained in orchestral, popular, and world musics.
My diverse performances range from a weekend of concerts with the Lawton Philharmonic (Oklahoma) to a rindik duet accompanying a joged dance in Ubud (Bali). I learned from members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Opera Orchestra, and the world music ensemble D'Drum. I spent several years as the drummer for Dallas band Love Junky, performing frequently in historic Deep Ellum and contributing to the soundtrack of Night Hawks, the short film by Carlos Garcia, Jr. I have also published four records of my original songs: The Front of the Line (2020), Two Thousand & One (2021), Here & Everywhere (2022), and Animal Sounds (2025).
I graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance and minor in Arts Management, and later earned an MA in Ethnomusicology from Arizona State University. My experience as an arts administrator includes work with Voices of Change, a renowned contemporary chamber music ensemble in Dallas; Helping Hand Drums, a 501(c)3 which I co-founded and continue to manage; Bridge the Gap Chamber Players, a student-managed 501(c)(3) at SMU where I led the establishment of the Music on Mockingbird series; the Fine Arts Chamber Players, where I worked on the 35th annual Basically Beethoven Festival; as well as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Phoenix Symphony, and even the Arizona Museum of Natural History.
I have studied ethnomusicology in the classroom at SMU and Arizona State University and on location in Bali and Cuba. I write, film, host, and edit a documentary series called Music that Moves, which examines the relationship between places and musical experiences on a global scale. I am also a member of the Advisory Committee at the Cuyamungue Institute, the organization with which I conducted my thesis research.
My taste in music is eclectic and my influences are equally diverse, allowing for a unique ability to conceive of music through a variety of distinct perspectives. I apply this plurality of vision to my work as a creator, researcher, educator, and administrator. My favorite musical quote when I last updated this is "Non est ad astra mollis e terris via"* - Latin for There is no easy path from the Earth to the stars.
*Quoted from "Break the Cycle" by Lawson, off the album Animal Sounds (2025). Originally a line in the 1st-century Roman tragedy Hercules Furens by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger, or simply: Seneca).
My diverse performances range from a weekend of concerts with the Lawton Philharmonic (Oklahoma) to a rindik duet accompanying a joged dance in Ubud (Bali). I learned from members of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Opera Orchestra, and the world music ensemble D'Drum. I spent several years as the drummer for Dallas band Love Junky, performing frequently in historic Deep Ellum and contributing to the soundtrack of Night Hawks, the short film by Carlos Garcia, Jr. I have also published four records of my original songs: The Front of the Line (2020), Two Thousand & One (2021), Here & Everywhere (2022), and Animal Sounds (2025).
I graduated from Southern Methodist University with a Bachelor of Music in Percussion Performance and minor in Arts Management, and later earned an MA in Ethnomusicology from Arizona State University. My experience as an arts administrator includes work with Voices of Change, a renowned contemporary chamber music ensemble in Dallas; Helping Hand Drums, a 501(c)3 which I co-founded and continue to manage; Bridge the Gap Chamber Players, a student-managed 501(c)(3) at SMU where I led the establishment of the Music on Mockingbird series; the Fine Arts Chamber Players, where I worked on the 35th annual Basically Beethoven Festival; as well as the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Phoenix Symphony, and even the Arizona Museum of Natural History.
I have studied ethnomusicology in the classroom at SMU and Arizona State University and on location in Bali and Cuba. I write, film, host, and edit a documentary series called Music that Moves, which examines the relationship between places and musical experiences on a global scale. I am also a member of the Advisory Committee at the Cuyamungue Institute, the organization with which I conducted my thesis research.
My taste in music is eclectic and my influences are equally diverse, allowing for a unique ability to conceive of music through a variety of distinct perspectives. I apply this plurality of vision to my work as a creator, researcher, educator, and administrator. My favorite musical quote when I last updated this is "Non est ad astra mollis e terris via"* - Latin for There is no easy path from the Earth to the stars.
*Quoted from "Break the Cycle" by Lawson, off the album Animal Sounds (2025). Originally a line in the 1st-century Roman tragedy Hercules Furens by Lucius Annaeus Seneca (also known as Seneca the Younger, or simply: Seneca).
