CV
Education
Instruction and Mentorship (italics indicate current instructor)
Festivals, Workshops, Residencies
Work Experience
Conducting/ Coaching Experience
Projects, Commissions and Professional Performances
- DMA, Composition, University of Toronto (Sept. 2014-2018)
- MMus, Composition, University of Toronto (Sept. 2012-Apr. 2014)
- BA, Music (First Class Honours), Brock University (Sept. 2008- Apr. 2012)
- Grade 9, Oboe Performance (Honours), Royal Conservatory of Music, Canada
Instruction and Mentorship (italics indicate current instructor)
- Composition: Norbert Palej, Gary Kulesha, Abigail Richardson-Schulte, Peter Landey
- Mentorship/Masterclasses: Salvatore Sciarrino (IT), David Lang (US), James Rolfe (CA), Dan Visconti (US), Stacie Garrop (US), Ana Sokolovic (CA), Jean Lesage (CA), Morten Lauridsen (US), Jean Baptiste Barrière (FR), Eric Ewazen (US), Robert Paterson (US), David Ludwig (US), Stephen Cabell (US), Sheridan Seyfried (US), Vera Ivanova (US/RUS) Rodney Sharman (CA), Gabriel Prokofiev (UK), Steven Mackey (US)
- Piano: Erika Crinó, Karin DiBella, Erika Reiman
- Oboe: Rob D’Orante
- Organ: Lesley Kingham
Festivals, Workshops, Residencies
- Soundstreams Emerging Composer Workshop composer participant (June 2018)
- University of Toronto Symphony Orchestra, composer-in-residence (2016-17)
- Centre d’Arts Orford, Creation Workshop participant (August 2015)
- Fresh Inc Festival, composer participant (June 2015)
- University of Toronto Opera Division, composer participant, “Footsteps in Campbell House” (2014-15)
- Canadian Contemporary Music Workshop, composer participant (Aug.-Sept 2014)
- Atlantic Music Festival, composer participant (July-August 2014)
- Vancouver International Song Institute Art Song Lab, composer participant (June 2014)
- ARRAYmusic Young Composers Workshop, composer participant (May 2014)
- gamUT New Music Ensemble, composer-in-residence (Sept. 2013-March 2014)
- Nuit Blanche Brock (Brock University), guest artist, organized and performed Composition #7 by La Monte Young and White for Governor Wallace by Emmett Williams. (Nov. 2011)
Work Experience
- Teaching Assistant, Intro to Composition course, University of Toronto (2016-current)
- Director of Music, St. Matthias Anglican Church (Etobicoke) (Aug. 2015-current)
- Administrative Assistant, Composition Department, University of Toronto Faculty of Music (Sept. 2014-current)
- Conductor’s Assistant, gamUT new music ensemble, University of Toronto (Sept. 2014-Apr. 2016)
- Theory Coordinator, VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto (Sept. 2013-current)
- Music and Worship Coordinator, Covenant Christian Reformed Church, St. Catharines (Sept. 2008 - Aug. 2012)
- Composer, Music Professional, Greater Toronto and Niagara region (Sept. 2008-current)
- VIVA! Youth Singers Chamber Youth Chorus, Bass (2013-2015)
- gamUT New Music Ensemble, Pianist/Keyboardist (2012-)
- Brock University Chorus, Bass (2008-2012)
- Brock University Wind Ensemble, Principal Oboe (2006-2012)
- Niagara Youth Orchestra, Second Oboe (2006-2007), Principal Oboe (2007-2011)
Conducting/ Coaching Experience
- shulammite (a), for piano trio, Tze Yeung Ho, fortelling: (for telling), June 6th, 2016, Gallery 345.
- Klaverkvinttet, for piano quintet, Tze Yeung Ho, fortelling: (for telling), June 6th, 2016, Gallery 345.
- Do or Die/Dead but Not Forgotten for pierrot ensemble, Joshua Denenberg, DMA Recital of Works, March 2016.
- Veni Sancte for three sopranos, Phillipe Leroux, gamUT new music ensemble University of Toronto, “Phillipe Leroux at the Music Gallery”, Dec. 2015.
- Phyton for two sopranos (vocal rehearsal coach), Phillipe Leroux, gamUT new music ensemble University of Toronto, Fall Concert 2015.
- Lyca for five sopranos and large ensemble (vocal rehearsal coach), Patrick McGraw, DMA Recital of Works, March 2015.
- There Was Light for choir, two speakers, piano and cello, Kolby Zinger-Harris, Student Composers Concert University of Toronto, March 2015.
- Six Voixs pour Six Reines for six sopranos, Ana Sokolovic. gamUT new music ensemble University of Toronto, Spring Concert 2015, March 2015.
- The Sun Shadow VIII for flute, oboe, clarinet and percussion, Wenchen Qin. University of Toronto New Music Festival, Jan. 2015.
- Wiesen… (eine Wanderer-fantasie) for chamber ensemble, Tyler Versluis. Student Composers Concert University of Toronto, November 2014.
Projects, Commissions and Professional Performances
- Work for solo tenor, commissioned by Caution Tape Collective (Oct. 2017)
- Work for SATB choir commissioned by VIVA! Youth Singers of Toronto (2016)
- Work for SATB choir commissioned by Trinity-St. Paul's United Church Choir (2016)
- Work for ‘cello, accordion, percussion and piano commissioned by Caution Tape Collective (March 2016)
- Songbook Project 2015 (Toronto, Canada) Concert of original art song, poetry and visual art by emerging artists. February 2016
- Carillon Fanfare for orchestra, commissioned by the Niagara Youth Orchestra for their 50th season (February 2015).
- On A Lighter Note: The Musical Performance of Humour (Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto) Curator and organizer for event Composing Comedy (January 15, 2015)
- Dear John: A Musical Divorce (Toronto, Canada) Rehearsal pianist for this new musical by composer Andrew Hodge. (Sept. 2014)
- Northern Connections (Toronto, Canada) A concert of music by emerging Finnish and Canadian composers. Performance of my piece, “Snow Box”. (March 2014)
- Toy Piano Composers, guest composer, composed “Delightful Automata” for flute, clarinet, violin, bass, percussion and piano (Feb. 2014)
- Sigil/All Flowers for bassoon, two clarinets and electric keyboard, for Eric Mohr, bassoonist. (May 2013)
- Three Poems by Guillaume Apollinaire, for soprano, flute, clarinet, ‘cello and piano, commissioned by the St. Catharines Chamber Music Society (March 2013)
- Meditations Around the Cross, for baritone and string quartet, commissioned by the St. Catharines Chamber Music Society (April 2012)