EDUCATION

California Institute of the Arts, ’93-.’95. MFA

California State University, Fullerton, ’92-’93

California State University, Long Beach, ’88-’92, BA

PRINCIPAL TEACHERS

California Institute of the Arts, Mel Powell, ’03; Stephen ‘Lucky’ Mosko, ‘04

California State University, Fullerton, Lloyd Rodgers

California State University, Long Beach, Martin Herman

OTHER STUDIES

California Institute of the Arts, Lisa Johnson (violin), Mort Subotnick (electronic music, video), Terry Riley, Ben Johnston (master classes)

SELECTED PERFORMANCES

Memphis Symphony (‘Go to your bedroom’)

New Century Players (‘Queer Ontology’)

CSULB Symphony (‘Merseagate’)

CSULB New Music Ensemble (‘Quintet’) ITO (‘White Spot’)

Mehmet Sander Dance Co. (live electronic score for touring season 1992 and 1993, including ‘Off our backs’ and ‘Action/Life’) Humility, Inc. (‘Disappointment in Exile’)

AWARDS

BMI Film Scoring Competition, first place CSULB Orchestra performance competition, first place

SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY

Pro Tools; Digital Performer; Soundhack; Reason; Finale

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Music teacher (theory, violin); Session musician (violin, guitar); Scoring/arranging/producing (film, jazz, bluegrass); Scoring to picture (‘HeyDay’ feature film shown at IFC 2001); owner/operator (Permo Studios); Music direction (Sander Dance Co.); composer for theater, short film, experimental film, radio, live event and sound reinforcement.