CV
Teaching
October 2018 – present
Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lecturer. Seminar: “Fundamentals of Electroacoustic Composition”
October 2017 – present
Universität der Künste Berlin and Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler, Berlin, Germany
Co-organizer of FEM*_ MUSIC*_
September 2021 – present
Catalyst Institute of Creative Arts and Technology, Berlin, Germany
Lecturer in the Electronic Music Production program. Seminars: “Music & Culture”, “Composition & Arrangement”, “Performance of Electronic Music”
October 2020 – February 2021
Technische Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Detmold, Germany
Lecturer. Seminars: “Art and Technology”, “Electronic Music Analysis”
May 2018 – April 2020
Common Ground, Berlin, Germany
Workshop Instructor of monthly series “Intro to Synthesis”. Community Manager
November 2019 – April 2020
QuerKlang with the Universität der Künste Berlin and the Fichtelgebirge-Grundschule Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Participation as composer in the project “QuerKlang – Experimental Composition in School”
September 2018 – December 2019
Neue Musikschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Individual lessons in piano, voice, and music theory
Prizes, Awards & Residencies
2023 – Recipient of the #TakeHeart grant from Fonds Darstellende Künste
2022 – Recipient of the stipend Berliner Arbeitsstipendium Ernste Musik und Klangkunst
2022 – Recipient of a project grant from initiative neue musik berlin e.V . (inm)
May 2018 – Residency at Schloss Bröllin, Germany
2013 – Cecil Short Memorial Prize in Music, Pomona College
2012 – Mellon Elemental Arts Initiative Summer Experience in the Arts Award
Notable Commissions
2023 – Commission by Dragana Bulut to compose music for “Beyond Love”
2022 – Commission by Staatstheater Hannover to compose music for “Das wirkliche Leben”, directed by Ran Chai Bar-zvi
2021 – Commission by Johanna Ackva to compose music for “Clouds on Clear Sky”
2021 – Commission by Caterina Barbieri to compose “Fantas Variation for Voices” published on the compilation album “Fantas Variations“, Editions Mego, performed in Southbank Centre, London and Amare, The Hague
2020 – Commission by the STEGREIF.orchester to compose “Encompass” for small orchestra
2020 – Commission by Julian Weber to compose music for “Allongé”
2019 – Commission from the Studio for Electroacoustic Music of the Akademie der Künste Berlin to compose “Forgot to Remember – Remember to Forget” for KONTAKTE ’19 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art
2019 – Commission by The Agency to compose music for “Take It Like A Man”
2018 – Commission from Heroines of Sound to compose “Synchromy No. 2” for Heroines of Sound Festival
2018 – Commission from Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau to compose “Oskar Remixed” for 100 Jahre Bauhaus
2018 – Commission by Ruben Reniers to compose music for “Displacement”
2016 – Commission by Ruben Reniers to compose music for “Simulacrum X (Part II)”
2015 – Invited to compose “Perspectives” for KONTAKTE’ 15 – Biennial for Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art, Akademie der Künste Berlin
2015 – Invited to develop and perform “Sounds for a While” in the Tischlerei of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
2014 – Commission by Ruben Reniers to compose music for “Simulacrum X”
2014 – Commission by the Orfeo Duo to compose “Reckless Poem”
Education
October 2014 – July 2017
Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
M.A. in Music Composition – composition with Kirsten Reese
April 2014 – March 2015
Universität der Künste Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1 year of enrolled study, Sound Studies M.A. Program – composition with Hans Peter Kuhn; auditive media design with Mike Daliot
September 2009 – May 2013
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
B.A. in Music with concentration in Composition (Minor in Religious Studies), Cum Laude – composition with Tom Flaherty; piano with Genevieve Lee; voice with Donna M. Di Grazia and Ursula Kleinecke-Boyer
September 2011 – December 2011
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and IES Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Semester Abroad, Fall Semester
June 2011
Queens College Conductors Workshop, New York, NY, USA
Conducting with Maurice Peress, Don Portnoy, and Dorothy Savage
June 2010 – July 2010
Münchener Kammerspiele, Munich, Germany
Theater Internship, primarily in the Sound Department