music
Music has been a through-line across every city I've lived in. Co-founding a vocal jazz ensemble at MIT, performing at festivals in Wisconsin, singing jazz standards in a Capitol Hill bedroom, playing prog rock at The Vera Project, making dark electronic music on a Moog, recording a jazz EP in Portland, getting funky with Slam Dunk. Here's the timeline.
MIT, 2008 · A cappella. Student director.
Member from 2008 to 2012, serving as student director. Co-directed the album BAM (2011) with Michael Miller, Ben Bloomberg, and Stephen Salinas. 11 tracks of a cappella covers spanning pop, rock, and classics.
MIT, 2009 · Vocalist. Madrigals & Renaissance works.
Sang in a chamber music ensemble performing madrigals and other Renaissance works. Palestrina, Gesualdo, and others.
MIT, 2011 · Co-founded with John Harbison, Spring 2011
Founded the first and only vocal jazz performance group at MIT with Institute Professor John Harbison (Pulitzer, MacArthur, Heinz). Served as student director. The ensemble has since performed with the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall, collaborated with Jacob Collier, Dominique Eade, Luciana Souza, and Audra McDonald, and released a debut recording, Vocal Jazz at MIT: Store-Bought Hair.
Madison, WI, 2013 · Vocalist, 2013 Season
Performed as part of the MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble at the Token Creek Festival outside Madison, Wisconsin, alongside John Harbison, Rose Mary Harbison, and a roster of performers from Juilliard, the Madison Symphony, and the Boston Pops.
Seattle, 2016 · Solo, BeatBat Records, April 2016
Eight tracks of jazz standards and soul, recorded in my apartment in Capitol Hill. Bonnie Raitt, Duke Ellington, George Shearing, Hoagy Carmichael. A bedroom EP in the most literal sense.
Seattle, 2016 · Prog rock / synth / pop, BeatBat Records, April 2016
A five-piece band training for the apocalypse. I sang and played bass alongside Isaac Backus, Rob Homan, Matthias Smith, and Mark Ellis. Recorded at The Vera Project by Nick Botka, mixed by Ed Boyer, mastered by Dave Sperandio.
Seattle, 2016 · Dark electronic, BeatBat Records, November 2016
A solo album made entirely with a Moog Liberation synthesizer, acoustic guitar, and vocals. Dark ambient electronics. Mixed by Jonathan Henshaw & Bill Hare, mastered by Bill Hare, album art by Hannah Wood.
Portland, 2017 · Jazz EP with pianist Matt Sazima, BeatBat Records, May 2017
Six jazz standards. Matt Sazima on piano, me on vocals. Standards like Misty, Stars Fell On Alabama, and It's Only A Paper Moon.
Portland · Funk / R&B band, Portland
An EP with a funk and R&B band out of Portland, Oregon.
Various years · Originals, covers, and other fun little things
Originals, covers, and other fun little things collected over the years. Personal favorite: the E-Pain rendition of Chopped and Skrewed.