Super-Fast-Intro-Page!
Selected Works:
This Compost (2021, voice, mandolin, string quartet) - score
Sonata for Cello and Piano (2021) - Spotify, Apple Music (tracks 11-14) - score (also check out my oboe sonata from 2020 on the same album, tracks 5-7, score)
Artist Statement*:
We are made of stories.
I grew up in the storytelling tradition of Playback Theater, an improvisatory art form where community members share stories from their lives, and a group of performers “play it back” with the intention of honoring the storyteller. I make music to tell stories: some of them are autobiographical, some of them are imagined; all of them are true.
Sometimes my stories are loud and exciting, and tell tales of great joy and aching sorrow. Sometimes, my stories seek “the quiet voice”, the ever-present whisper (nature? intuition?).
I believe in the power of stories to bring us closer to each other, to find commonalities across difference, and to forge profound relationships and lasting communities. I believe stories can make us more deeply compassionate, curious, and human.
If we are made of stories, how could sharing stories with one another be anything less than an act of love?
(*subject to frequent change, like most things.)
