About me
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I grew up in upstate New York and began making music at age 6 with a local church handbell choir. The saxophone came next when I was 10. 23 years later, I am a happily busy musician, educator, and arts administrator. Sadly, no handbell gigs have come up lately. Call me!
I love performing with Singularity, the quartet I co-founded in 2013. Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen wrote that Singularity “brought a wonderful life and spirit” to his work in our 2015 Carnegie Hall debut. Singularity is currently developing a 72-hour project inspired by the music of William Basinski in partnership with Metropolis Ensemble, composer Paula Matthusen, poet Tung-Hui Hu, and artist Olivia Valentine. Singularity is a grateful recipient of multiple Chamber Music America Ensemble Forward Grants made possible with generous support from the New York Community Trust. We have had the great fortune of working with the incomparable clarinetist David Krakauer in career coaching sessions and the Grammy-winning producer Ryan Truesdell while we recorded our first EP.
Some of my favorite performances include: an ongoing exploration of the music of Eva-Maria Houben; a mostly-monthly at-home recording series of a variety of solo works and arrangements; an operatic double bill of Phony by David Matthew Brown and J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata with Hub City Opera (NJ) in 2023; Philip Venables’ stunning opera 4.48 Psychosis with Contemporaneous at the 2019 Prototype Festival (named a notable performance of the year by Alex Ross in The New Yorker); the October 2018 world premiere of David Lang’s Mile Long Opera on the High Line in New York City; the U.S. premiere of Charles Wuorinen’s Brokeback Mountain with New York City Opera and Kazem Abdullah at Lincoln Center in May 2018; and the 2018 live show and recording of William Brittelle’s Spiritual America with Metropolis Ensemble and Wye Oak at Symphony Space in New York and Oktaven Audio. Other notable performances include The Princeton Festival’s production of John Adams' Nixon in China, Steve Mackey’s Mnemosyne's Pool with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and David Robertson, multiple shows with the Princeton Symphony Orchestra led by Rossen Milanov, Lucas Richman, and John Devlin, and a collaboration between the New World Symphony and Miami City Ballet. I have had many wonderful teachers and am especially grateful to Wildy Zumwalt, Patrick Meighan, Carina Rascher, and Laura FitzGerald for their profound contributions to my musical growth.
I find great joy and purpose in my work at Haddon Township (NJ) High School as the Director of Bands. I lead the concert, jazz, and marching bands, lead the musical's pit orchestra, and teach courses in music technology, guitar, and video production. I happily spend my free time playing basketball as often as possible and cooking dinner for my amazing wife Audrey Yeager.