Biography

2025 — Junges Kolleg Member (Humboldtⁿ Sustainability Initiative), North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts

2024 — Young Academy for Sustainability Research (YAS) Member, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg

2023 — Junior Professor of Composition and Music Theory in Post-digital Educational Spaces, University of Siegen

2021 — Ph.D. in Music Composition, Princeton University

2021 — Tanglewood Music Center Composition Fellow

2018 — Fulbright U.S. Student Award, Stockholm, Sweden

2017 — Arts Council of England Exceptional Global Talent Award

2017 — ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award

2016 — M.F.A. in Music Composition, Princeton University

2015 — Bang on a Can Summer Institute Composition Fellow

2014 — Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans

2014 — B.M. in Music Composition, The Juilliard School

2013 — Juilliard Orchestra Composers Competition Prize

2012 — Aspen Music Festival and School Composition Fellow

Select Commissions and Performances:

Bang on a Can Fellows, Berlin Academy of American Music (BAAM), Eighth Blackbird, Ensemble Mise-En, Ensemble Three, JACK Quartet, Kronos Quartet, Sō Percussion, Tesla Quartet, The Juilliard Orchestra, Variant 6

Composition Instructors: 

Samuel Adler, Martin Amlin, Louis Andriessen, Michael Gandolfi, Sofia Gubaidulina, John Harbison, Sydney Hodkinson, Daniel Kellogg, David Lang, Philip Lasser, Steven Mackey, Christopher Rouse, George Tsontakis, Dmitri Tymoczko, Julia Wolfe, Barbara White, Dan Truema