1978) is a Boston based composer and trumpet player whose works
take inspiration from the interplay of mathematics and human interaction with the perception of time and sound. His works have been played by the Boston Conservatory Wind and Brass Ensembles, Equilibrium Ensemble, Ludovico Ensemble, Juventas New Music, Ensemble Interface, Callithumpian Consort, the DMC percussion-clarinet duo, Bay Colony Brass, Oberlin Brass Ensemble, the Charles River Wind Ensemble, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, Boston Modern Brass. He performs with Sound Icon, Equilibrium Ensemble, New England Philharmonic, and the Charles River Wind Ensemble. He received a Bachelor of Music in Composition and Trumpet Performance from Oberlin Conservatory and a Master of Music in Composition from Boston Conservatory where upon graduation he received the Roger Sessions Memorial Composition Award. His primary teachers of composition have included Richard Hoffmann, Curtis Hughes, Dalit Warshaw and Jan Swafford, with additional studies with Andy Vores, Edward Miller, Randolph Coleman, John Luther Adams, John Harbison, Pauline Oliveros, Christian Wolff, John Adams, Tan Dun and Louis Lane. For more information, please visit http://jsnfmn.net/