Composer
Program Notes The first time I saw one of Shankar Tucker’s videos on YouTube, almost five years ago, I knew I wanted to write him this concerto. I didn’t know him back then: I was just one of his millions of fans from around the world, who was so deeply moved to see a musician … Read more
Program Notes Even though my heritage is Indian, most of my early musical training was exclusively in Western classical music. It was only since 2010 that I began to learn about and explore Hindustani (North Indian) classical music, and incorporate its elements into my work. Though the combination of the unique resultant sounds of these … Read more
Program Notes The Blue Room is a concerto in two movements. The title was taken from a poem called White Key, by Carol Muske Dukes (the text of which I later set in its entirety for choir, in White Key). The line reads, “…like the light on the bed / In the blue room where … Read more