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
a comic-rap-scrap-metal-opera about a trapped man performed at American Conservatory Theater, International Festival of Arts & Ideas, and Hopkins Center for the ArtsMò 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
an interview installation for 11 pianists and one piano presented at the CounterCurrent Festival of the University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
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