Gold Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Film Music - Park City Film Music Festival

5 Gold Medals for Musical Excellence - Park City Film Music Festival

Best Use of Score Nomination - The Film & TV Music Academy

Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music in an Animated Television Production - Co-Composed with Rob Kral

In the last 5 years of working as a composer, I've scored 8 seasons of television series and over 30 films, including award-winning features, documentaries and short subjects.

My first break in LA production came two years after graduating from the USC film scoring program when Joss Whedon hired me to score season 7 of his series "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" for 20th Century Fox/Mutant Enemy. We had worked together on the Emmy nominated musical episode "Once More, With Feeling," in season 6 when I was Chris Beck's assistant. In addition to scoring season 7, Joss honored me by requesting I arrange and produce his song for an episode connected with the musical. As so often happens in television, the showrunner wanted her own composer...so after scoring a few episodes, completing the song and earning praise from Joss and series fans, I moved over to "ANGEL" and happily scored 33 episodes of seasons 4 and 5 of that Fox/Mutant Enemy series along with Rob Kral. I scored the ABC series "MIRACLES" and three seasons of "DUCK DODGERS" for Warner Bros. Animation, also with Rob. Mark Kilian invited me to co-score on Rob Bowman's Touchstone series "DAY BREAK".

Film work includes scoring the LA Screamfest “Crystal Skull Award Winning Doc” H.H. HOLMES: America's First Serial Killer, independent features and documentaries, additional music for Chris Beck on Universal's THE SKULLS III , THE SKULLS II, USA Network's WOLF GIRL, Imagine's STEALING HARVARD, Universal's BIG FAT LIAR and Bob Gale's INTERSTATE 60: Episodes of the Road. I've scored some exceptional shorts, including the Comic-Con award-winning space fantasy ROCKETBOY staring Robert Picardo, the Angelus Awards finalist THE TRUTH ABOUT FACES staring Hannah Hall, the PCFMF Gold Medal winners ENTITY: NINE and FREEDOMLAND, the USA Film Festival finalist BEYOND THE SILENCE, the ION International award-winning thriller ANTEBODY, the Angelus Awards finalist SHELTER, the CINE special jury award-winning period drama SUNDAY PAPER p.2b, the Big Bear audience award-winning animated film PAPER CUT and the directorial debuts of impressive emerging filmmakers.

For 2008, I have already begun scoring a string of diverse projects that take me into summer, including 4 features, a doc and three striking shorts. I've also been asked to score a pilot for producers Jordan Levin and Eric Wight.

I grew up in New York and had the good fortune to attend a high school that taught music theory. Formal education included an undergrad degree in music composition, grad level course work with Cliff Colnot, Chicago Symphony Orchestra MusicNOW conductor, at the University of Chicago and DePaul University, and private composition studies with Hans Wurman (father of composer Alex Wurman).

Hans asked me to co-compose a film with him and encouraged me to pursue scoring professionally. I scored episodes from two A&E series produced by Bill Kurtis Productions, but there wasn't much film work in Chicago, so I moved to LA and attended USC's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program. I spent that year studying under composers Christopher Young, Elmer Bernstein and Buddy Baker, and writing for LA's session players with recording dates at professional stages.

After graduation I went to work as an assistant for composer Christophe Beck. It was there that I first met Joss Whedon, working as the Assoc. Music Director on the "BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER" musical, "Once More, With Feeling." That next summer, Chris generously put my name in to Joss for composing "BUFFY" and helped me take the big leap from assistant to composer. I bought my own studio and gear and have been working since that time as a professional. Very cool. And, I look forward to all the work ahead of me.

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