I am a composer, theorist and guitarist, living in New York City. For the past decade I have been pursuing a wide variety of musical interests: composition, contemporary music, jazz guitar, philosophy and critical theory, free improvisation, music analysis, and music theory. I completed my doctorate at UC Berkeley in 2006 with a dissertation entitled, “The Music of Skepticism: materiality, intentionality, forms of life.” (For more information, please visit the writings page of my website.)

In June 2008, I will be completing a Mellon post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of Music at Columbia University, and heading off to join the music theory faculty in the Department of Music at Yale University. In fact, the above photograph was captured immediatley after patronizing one of Connecticut’s friendliest culinary destinations.