I spent most of last month finishing my new piece for Chicago Sinfonietta (for a March 11/12 premier in Chicago!) I was finally able to take a few months off writing last summer after writing […]
The Month of California — January 2017
Even though I love that my work takes me to so many different places, it has been such a treat to have so many things happening in my home state this month! I lived in […]
KSU Residency, collaboration with Zakir Hussain and Kronos Quartet, and #MessiahProject17 — December 2017
2017 was the wildest travel year of my life — I just completed my last travels of the year a few days ago! Since January, I’ve been on 25 trips to 18 different cities, including […]
9.2.16
Hi Friends! Just a quick one to let you know that I finally caved in and have a professional page on Facebook. It’s way easier to stay up to date there, so for the most […]
11.16.2015
Excited to have been the subject of this mini-documentary about using technology to compose for the PC rebranding campaign PC Does What
6.5.2015
Next season is shaping up to be very exciting! Here are some of the highlights: I will be doing three very different residencies next season: I will be the Composer in Residence for Concerts on […]
5.28.2015
What a spring it’s been! The projects I announced in the last post are almost reaching completion. I’m writing this in the midst of listening to the final cuts of my dance suite for AtticRep’s […]
4.28.2015
In addition to being a composer, I am also a Co-Artistic Director of Shastra, an organization that cultivates the work of musicians who connect Indian and Western musical traditions. Last Sunday, we hosted the first […]
2.13.15
It’s been an exciting 2015 so far! I am working on three pieces premiering this spring: Pasadena Master Chorale has commissioned a large, evening-length work that will premier on June 29th, 2015 at CalTech. Continuing […]
12.9.14
Every time the holidays roll around, I always daydream about arranging Christmas carols. This season I finally had the chance to make it happen! Last night, the Pasadena Master Chorale and the PMC Student Singers […]
11.22.14
Last Friday, I was part of a Street Symphony concert for the first time. Street Symphony is an incredible organization, made up of some of Los Angeles’s top musicians, who take music into jails and […]
11.8.14
Last week I returned from a whirlwind trip to the east coast — we had three days of recording bansuri, sarangi and tabla for “Radha” (a film by Rupeshi Shah). Then I went up to […]