I’m a composer, music theorist, and cognitive scientist. At this site you can listen to my compositions, learn about my research, and download my papers.

As a composer, I’ve written mainly piano music, chamber music, and songs. Some upcoming performances of my works in fall 2025: my new violin sonata will be played by Juliana Athayde and Chiao-Wen Cheng at a Chamber Music Rochester concert in October; an orchestra piece was commissioned by Asbury First United Methodist Church; my Piano Sonata No. 7 will be premiered by Tyler Ramos at the University of Hawaii; and I’ll be performing my songs (with singers) at the Rochester Fringe Festival (all dates TBA).

As a researcher, I’m interested in the way people perceive, process, and mentally represent music, and the possibility of learning about this through computational modeling. I’m also interested in corpus analysis (statistical analysis of music) and what it can tell us about musical styles and broader issues of music cognition. I’ve worked a lot on popular music, emotion in music, and issues of rhythm and meter. I have a strong secondary interest in language research: parsing, sentence production / comprehension, and corpus research.

An article in City Newspaper about my music / A radio interview on WXXI