Selected activities and associations, including guest lectures, commissions, residencies, and awards:
• ASCAP Expo – Mentor, Film Scoring One-On-One Sessions
• ASCAP Steve Kaplan Award for musical excellence, professionalism, and career potential
• Aspen Music Festival Film Scoring Fellow
• BMI Pete Carpenter Fellowship – Finalist
• Cinefamily Presents: The Best and The Brightest (panelist)
• Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco: Side Unseen – Commissioned by Irva hertz-PIcciotto
• Film Music Magazine: Composer-To-Watch, Best-of-2013 List
• The Best Jobs in the Music Industry: Straight Talk from Successful Music Pros
Interviewed for Michael Redman’s book, Chapter 3
• Bob Cole Conservatory, CSULB Composers’ Colloquium – Guest Composer
• Idyllwild Arts Academy – Guest Lecturer, Film Scoring
• The Juilliard School – American Brass Quintet masterclass: Lullabies & Labors (featured repertoire)
• Mohawk Trails Concerts – Premiere: Structures of San Francisco Weather (sop, clar, piano)
Commissioned by Sari Gruber, texts by David Goldstein
• Occidental College Choir and Pasadena All-District High School Choral Festival:
Performances of Joy, Shipmate, Joy! (SATB choral)
• Pasadena Waldorf High School – Premiere: Three Songs For Autumn (SATB choral)
• San Francisco Giants – Star Spangled Banner (SATB choral arrangement), multiple performances
• Savvy Musician In Action (Music Entrepreneurship Conference) – Runner-up for Custom Ed Music (Team Leader)
• Turner Classic Movies, Young Film Composer Competition – Finalist
• UCLA Extension – Guest Lecturer, Advanced Film Scoring
• VYMA Music Project – Composer-In-Residence, for El Sistema-inspired strings program in Pasadena Public Schools
• VYMA Music Project – Commission: Pristine Machine, for String Orchestra
• West Coast Seminario at Longfellow Elementary – Guest Conductor
• Yale Glee Club/Freshman Chorus – Premiere of Whitman Songs (SATB Choral)
• Yale In Hollywood: Indie Film Panel, Los Angeles (panelist)
• Yale In Hollywood: New York Summit (panelist)
• TEACHING: film scoring, musicianship/theory, composition, improvisation, choral music, musical theater
