EDUCATION

• B.A., Music and Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley, 1992.
• M.A., Music Composition, San Francisco State University, 1997
• currently enrolled in PhD program in Music Theory and Composition at New York University
• studied with:  Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman, Richard Festinger, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Wayne Peterson, Louis Karchin, Elizabeth Hoffman, and Martin Boykan.

• Private instruction in music theory, harmony, composition, arranging, sight-singing, ear-training, guitar, bass.
• Undergraduate course for first-year music majors in ear-training and sight-singing, two successive semesters.
• Teaching assistant for general undergraduate music appreciation course, two semesters.

• theories of musical contour
• mathematical models for music
• music of Haydn, Bartok, Stravinsky Berio, Carter, Reich
• jazz, Afro-Cuban musics, hip-hop
• web publication Steve Reich: The Composer and his Critics

• instruments:  contrabass (primary), some guitar, piano, and koto
• languages:  English (native), French, some Japanese