A life-long pianist, I was self-taught for twenty-five years before studying with Shin Huang and Andrew Zhou at Cornell University. I also play trumpet, and have worked with players including Lester Bowie, Joe Magnarelli, and Wynton Marsalis. I currently play trumpet in a jazz band with The Nighttime Routine comedy show. We perform about once a month.
On both trumpet and piano, I have performed at venues across New England, New York, and Japan, including Middlebury College, Cornell University, Carnegie Hall, ISSUE Project Room (Brooklyn), The Quincy Atom (Brooklyn), GAMBA Forest (Brooklyn), Forestlimit (Tokyo), Socore Factoy (Osaka), the Vermont Contemporary Music Festival, and the Vermont Dairy Co-op (yes, really).
I occasionally disc jockey for 8ball Radio in New York City on my show called Musicology Fun Hour and, though not my primary musical vocation, there is photographic evidence of me DJing poorly in a few Japanese clubs floating somewhere on the internet.
Some of my music can be found on SoundCloud (look for updates soon).
Archives of my first season of Musicology Fun Hour (all vinyl!) are accessible here:
Week 4: The Cool Kid’s Guide to Classical Music
Week 5: Alternative Blues Histories
Week 6: Genre Hodge-Podge (Surprises GUARANTEED)
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I hosted a podcast called Academic Defectors, interviewing fellow PhDs who left academia behind. You can listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. It was a fun project that is currently on hiatus.
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