So guys, I am also a composer and I figured it was time to make a page about my work!

I write a lot of music. I love doing it! When I go to the practice rooms to write, I can spend hours, I can get lost, it is not work for me to write music. When I go to a practice room with my oboe, it’s work. This is how I know I am in the Right Stream.

This past year I was commissioned by the WLU Symphony Orchestra to write a piece for their brass section, and it was performed in their first concert of the season. I have also worked with many other students, composing pieces for their graduate recitals and for student composer concerts.

I improvise and play new music too, and on November 25th, 2009, am premiering three solo oboe miniatures: Doraji, by Narim Kim, Artichokes, by Amanda Lowry, and Radicchio by Jennifer Lyn del Duca.

I study with Peter Hatch and Linda Catlin-Smith, and you can hear some samples of my work if you click on the “Composer” tab. I love to write, and I love it when people play my music, so if you are interested in getting the music for anything you hear–or getting a new piece by me (gasp), please let me know! I am already writing a trio for a BC Obohemian, and it is making my life super exciting.

The things and people which have most influenced my work to date include:
Thomas Tallis and other Renaissance composers
John Adams, Philip Glass, and the minimalists
Owen Pallett’s carefully constructed and beautiful albums
Nico Muhly’s “crazy person at a delicious buffet” approach
The possibilities, progress, community, and nature of the Internet
Authors like Salman Rushdie, Robertson Davies, and Ursula Le Guin
Mythology and folklore from around the world
The idea that music expresses emotion–but it doesn’t have to be obvious
Colour, texture, dynamic
Time and dimensions