Composer
“Audacious, compelling and hugely imaginative.”
Sometimes a song can mean freedom or death. I create musical events to hold tension between these extremes. My songs of dislocation honor the challenges and rituals of people who gather to listen.
Leo Stutzin, Huffington Post
Sometimes a song can mean freedom or death. I create musical events to hold tension between these extremes. My songs of dislocation honor the challenges and rituals of people who gather to listen.
Here are six projects:
Activist Songbook53 raps and songs to counteract hate and energize movements performed at Asian Arts Initiative, The International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and Montalvo Arts Center
The Ones, a.k.a. Trigger, a.k.a. (Be)longing
a music theater forum about coming of age in an age of guns performed at the Center for the Arts at Virginia Tech, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, MDC Live Arts, and NYU
Stuck Elevator
Mò Shēng 墨声 Ink Sound
a string quartet calligraphy installation performed at the Frye Art Museum
Turbine
for 80+ moving voices along the water performed by the Leah Stein Dance Company and Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia for the 200th anniversary of the Fairmount Water Works
Piano Concerto–Houston
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