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EDUCATION
Stony Brook University (New York, USA)
2031 (expected) PhD, Music Composition
University of Auckland (Auckland, NZ)
2022 Master of Music, Composition
2019 Bachelor of Music (Hons), Composition
2018 Bachelor of Arts, French
University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
2016-2017 Semester abroad though 360 Exchange Programme
RESEARCH
Representational content in music: exploring the interactions between composer, work, listener and meaning | Masters thesis, 2021
Supervised by David Chisholm, University of Auckland.
Contemplating racial diversity in barbershop singing | Honours dissertation, 2018
Supervised by Davinia Caddy, University of Auckland.
Impressionism in the piano repertoire of Claude Debussy, 2017
Practice-led composition research project. Sample works based on the exploration and use of compositional techniques and methodology demonstrated by Debussy in his ‘impressionistic’ piano works. Supervised by John Coulter, University of Auckland.
RESIDENCIES/FELLOWSHIPS
2026 CoLAB: Composer Accelerator Program, Omega Ensemble, Sydney, AUS
2026 Australian Composers School, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Hobart, AUS
2025 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA, Massachusetts, USA
2025 Willapa Bay Artist-in-Residence Program, WA, USA
2025 Flinders Quartet Emerge Program, Melbourne, AUS
2025 Australian Youth Orchestra Summer Music Festival, University of Adelaide, AUS
2024 Edward T Cone Composition Institute, Princeton University, NJ, USA
2024 NZSO National Youth Orchestra Composer-in-Residence
2023 Ockham Collective Artist Residency, Auckland, New Zealand
AWARDS/SELECTIONS
2026 Katy Abbot Prize Winner, 2026 IAWM Search for New Music (Speculations on a Rainbow for orchestra)
2026 Official Australian Selection, ISCM World New Music Days Festival, Romania (convergency for piano trio)
2026 Winning Work, British Electroacoustic Network Call for Scores (All That Remains from Earthworks with Garling Wu)
2026 On Air On Site Radio Art Festival, The Hague (Earthworks with Garling Wu)
2025 SOUNZ NZSO Composer Sessions, Wellington, NZ (Speculations on a Rainbow for orchestra)
2025 MANIFEST:IO Symposium for New Media & Electronic Art, Berlin, GERMANY (Sounding Bell from Earthworks with Garling Wu)
2024 APRA Composition Hubs, Auckland, NZ, APRA AMCOS
2022 Winner, Open Category, Compose Aotearoa!, Choirs Aotearoa NZ Foundation
2022 SOUNZ NZSO Composer Sessions, Wellington, NZ (marble, bark, silver for orchestra)
2022 Winning Work, KC Vitas Call for Scores, KS, USA (Let My Country Awake for mixed voices)
2022 Honorary Mention, Celebris Ensemble International Composition Competition (Let My Country Awake for mixed voices)
2021 Winning Work, AudioVisualise Composing Competition, NZTrio (convergency for piano trio)
2021 Blues Award in Arts & Culture, University of Auckland
2020 Douglas Mews Composition Prize, University of Auckland
FUNDING
2026 ANAM Set Commission, Australian National Academy of Music
2026 Uxbridge Creative Fellowship, Uxbridge Arts and Culture, Auckland, NZ
2025 Music Australia Export Development Fund, Music Australia
2024 Early Career Fund, Creative New Zealand
2024 Creatives in Schools Round 5 Grant, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand
2023 Arts Grant, Creative New Zealand
2023 Creatives in Schools Round 4 Grant, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand
2022 APRA Professional Development Award, APRA AMCOS
2021 Kotahitanga: United through Creativity Commission, Creative Waikato
2020 SOUNZ Community Commission, SOUNZ Centre for New Zealand Music