Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D. candidate in Composition and Computer Technologies

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

BA/BS in Music/Computer Science

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

Graduate Assistant

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

• As instructor: Art of the Living Web (2021), Basic Musical Skills (2019), Musicianship II (2018, 2021)
• As TA: Technosonics (2017, 2018, 2020, 2022), Intro to Composition (2020), Intro to Music and Computers (2019)

Technical Director

SPLICE Institute, online

Intro to Live Performance (co-taught with Flannery Cunningham)

Substitute Teacher

Stafford County Public Schools, VA

Responsible for classroom management with any age range or course, including students with autism and other intellectual disabilities.

Private Teacher and HARPS Foundation Intern

Academy of Music, Richmond, VA

Taught harp in a studio of 15, with students aged 5-65; set up for rehearsals and led them when necessary; managed the nonprofit’s webpage and helped it start using MailChimp for HTML emails; performed with the organization’s Touring Ensemble, which included performances in London, England; Vienna, Austria; Charleston, SC; and Carnegie Hall in NY

Technical Director

SPLICE Institute, Kalamazoo, WI

Responsible for managing individual composer-performer sessions, and running concerts in multiple performance spaces. During the pandemic, this mainly included managing streaming. Assistant Technical Director before Summer 2021.

Music Technology Specialist

University of Richmond; Richmond, VA

Responsible for a 15-seat iMac music technology lab, 16-channel recording studio, and managing seven student lab aides/engineers. Duties include recording and distributing all concerts of faculty-led ensembles held in Camp Concert Hall, assisting students with Logic Pro X, Ableton Live 9 Suite, Pro Tools 12, and Finale 2014.

Freelance Web Developer/Designer

Various clients

Builds and maintains sites and webapps. Works with a variety of frontend frameworks (mainly Wordpress, Jekyll, NodeJS, and NuxtJS), alongside a number of frontend libraries, develops backend services (using Python and Express in Node), and does some degree of server administration.

Arts Board Co-Chair

UVA Music Arts Board, Charlottesvile, VA

Brought the progressive folk band Arcadian Wild in for a five-day residency, which included two in-person concerts, three in-person songwriting workshops, class visits, a radio interview, a career panel, an improv workshop, and individual student lessons. Reached approximately 200 people in person, and 2500 more via the livestream of their main concert. In addition to planning and running all the events, this included interviewing and managing a board of 9-11 students and running the production committee.

Assistant Technical Director

SPLICE Institute, Kalamazoo, WI

Responsible for managing individual composer-performer sessions, and running concerts in multiple performance spaces.

2019 N_SEME Executive Director

University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA

Duties included adjudicating pieces and mediating the group adjudication process; booking spaces for concerts, paper sessions, indoor/outdoor installations; working with guest artist, Aaron Dilloway; building/updating the website; delegating within the planning team

Assistant Technical Director

Third Practice New Music Festival, University of Richmond; Richmond, VA

Helped with publicity, scheduling student stagehands, creating audio/video recordings of all concerts, planning stage plots/changes, lighting, and video.

Technical Director

Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville, FL; University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

Helped organize and run a three-day electroacoustic music festival. Duties included assisting with adjudication of submitted works, scheduling concerts and adjusting programming for technical efficiency, web design/maintenance, communicating with composers and performers, planning stage plots and tech rehearsals, running sound for 5–9 concerts each year, and managing a stage crew of 2–6 students.

Music from SEAMUS, vol. 31

SEAMUS Records

Composer. "dark parts" selected for inclusion by attendees of the SEAMUS 2021 national conference.

Music from SEAMUS, vol. 26

SEAMUS Records

Composer. "Hold Still" selected for inclusion by attendees of the SEAMUS 2016 national conference.

Los Wemblers de Iquitos - Sonido Amazonico

Barbes Records

Assistant engineer

Shades of Opal - Fluorescence

Assistant engineer, performer (harp and vocals)

Mark L. Snyder - The Invalid's Sonnet

Royal Livermush Recording

Assistant engineer, performer (harp)

Aaron Taylor - Millcreek

Millcreek Records

Recording engineer

Nature Boy Explorer - One of These Days

Royal Livermush Recording

Performer (harp and vocals)

bell monks - let the waves carry us

Mine All Mine Records

Performer (harp and vocals) on "cold winds (staffco remix)"

Nature Boy Explorer - self-titled

Royal Livermush Recording

Performer (harp and vocals)

components.one

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Articles about data, made with NuxtJS.

James Lam Scheuren

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Site rebuild for photographer James Scheuren. Made with Wordpress.

SEAMUS 2020 Digital Conference

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An online version of the SEAMUS 2020 conference, created after the conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Made with Jekyll.

Listening to the Virginia Barrier Islands

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A webapp that allows listeners to virtually navigate the bird species present on the two of the Virginia Barrier Islands in 1990. Made with NodeJS, Leaflet, Web Audio API. Made in collaboration with Eli Stine.

N_SEME 2019

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Site for the National Student Electronic Music Event, hosted at UVA. Made with Jekyll.

Andrea Cheeseman

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Site for new music clarinetist, Andrea Cheeseman. Made with Wordpress.

Sound Designer

Exercises for the Digital Age, online

Sound designer for the web series Exercises for the Digital Age, produced by visual artists Gabriel Hensche and Ashlee Conery.

Theatrical Sound Designer

Live Arts, Charlottesville, VA

Sound designer for productions of Every Brilliant Thing, Pipeline, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, and Love and Information.

Scholar's Lab Fellowship

University of Virginia

Awarded to continue work on my dissertation.

BROWSER Music commission

BROWSER Music, Stuttgart, Germany

Grant awarded to create "Packetsphere: An Internet Travelogue" with composer Zak Argabrite, as part of the BROWSER Music Festival in June 2021.

UVA Maker Grant

University of Virginia

Grant awarded for an ongoing project.

Rote Hund/Dawg Bytes commission

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Commission from the combined Rote Hund and Dawg Bytes Music ensembles, to write a work for chamber and laptop ensemble.

Mu Phi Epsilon Sterling Silver Achievement Award

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

Henry & Grace Spicer Scholarship in Music

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

James E. Baker University-Community Orchestra Scholarship

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

John William and Anne Hamilton Hudachek Scholarship in Computer Science

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA

Martha Johnson Orchestra Scholarship

University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA