AT WIA FAE (2024)
I wrote this piece for myself (cello), Alexander Hawkins (piano), and Taylor Ho Bynum (cornet), inspired by the albums I’ve Known Rivers and Trio² which feature the trio of Abdul Wadud (cello), Anthony Davis (piano), and James Newton (flute), as well Cornell 1964 by the Charles Mingus Quintet featuring Eric Dolphy. In the composition process, I reflected on three main themes: 1. Lineage (between musicians and activists) 2. How do we navigate a broken world? 3. Art, activism, and performative social justice.
Riverwalk Trail (2025)
Beccy and I co-wrote this piece for a collaboration with the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College for their exhibit Attitude of Coexistence. In it, we explore the relationship between natural/acoustic and digital/electronic sound, through cello and Beccy’s Tiny Touch Instruments. The title of the piece comes from a wonderful community garden located in White River Junction, VT.
Bill Cole’s Untempered Ensemble
In Fall of 2023, Taylor Ho Bynum connected me with Bill Cole for an audio editing project. Soon after, Bill invited me to improvise with him, and that turned into weekly improvisation sessions that have spanned almost two years. In addition to duo and smaller ensemble performances in the Upper Valley and the Champlain Valley Region, I’ve had the privilege of performing in Bill’s annual Front Porch Music Series, a monthly improvisatory performance which has featured musicians like: Taylor Ho Bynum, Joseph Daley, Bill Lowe, Ras Moshe, Lisette Santiago, Olivia Shortt, Warren Smith, Althea SullyCole, and Mali Obomsawin.
Other projects and shows
Concert for Liberation (2025)
At the top of 2025, I produced and performed in the Concert for Liberation, inspired by the 1986 Anti-Apartheid Concert at Dartmouth College. The 1986 concert featured Music Department faculty in explicit support of Dartmouth Community for Divestment (DCD), the group at the time which advocated for Dartmouth College to divest from apartheid South Africa. I produced this Concert for Liberation in that spirit, explicitly supporting Dartmouth Divest for Palestine’s (DD4P) divestment proposal, which calls for the College to divest from weapons manufacturers that enable the state of Israel’s genocide in Palestine. The concert featured English department and Music department faculty, as well as two performers from the 1986 concert, Bill Cole and Christian Wolff.
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