MINI-BIO
I'm a composer of concert music (what you might call "classical" or "art" music), competitive field show music (for marching bands, its a BIG thing in Indiana, Texas, and some other states), electronic music, and incidental music (stuff for film and other media).

Things I enjoy:
- Composing
- Wide ranges of music (everything from Perotin to Mozart to Charlie Parker to Radiohead to Skrillex to Hans Zimmer to Jonsi).
- Getting lost in YouTube
- Thinking
- !!NERD ALERT!! Video games (I play Minecraft and League of Legends to take mental breaks from composing)
- Web design and programming (I am fairly fluent in HTML, CSS, PHP, Javascript, and a little Ruby and XML)
- Open mindedness

Things I don't enjoy:
- Network television (with exception of comedies that match my sense of humor)
- Getting lost in YouTube
- Close mindedness

ABOUT ME
I was born and raised in Fort Wayne, IN. I did my undergraduate work in music education at Ball State University and I'm currently pursuing an M.M. in Composition with a graduate assistantship at Ithaca College in New York, studying with Dana Wilson. I started out my professional career writing marching band music for my high school, which led to a premiere of one of my early wind ensemble pieces by the Vandercook Symphonic Band at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago. Since then, I have written shows for some great high school marching bands, had an arrangement played live on NBC during the Macy's Parade (University of Southern Mississippi), and written for the inimitable Boston Brass.

In terms of personality, I'm an INTP, which describes me pretty well.