The Full Story

I am a professional orchestrator and arranger for concert, chamber, and large ensemble settings. My work emphasizes clarity, craft, and collaboration, with a focus on realized performances, commissioned projects, and professionally prepared scores that support musicians and conductors in the rehearsal room and on the stage.

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Career Snapshot

• 600+ completed works for orchestra, chamber, and ensemble

• 300+ performances across international stages

• 70+ recordings 

• 63% commissioned at the professional level

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Artistic Identity

My grounding in large ensemble arranging and orchestral preparation comes from years of studio practice, deep engagement with instrumental writing, and collaboration with conductors and performers across genres. Early in my career, rigorous practical work in educational and ensemble settings sharpened my understanding of instrumental idiom and score preparation; in recent years, my focus has centered on professional orchestral collaborations and high-precision engraving.
 

What I Do​​

I help ensembles sound their best by delivering:

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• Orchestration and scoring for orchestra, chamber, and wind ensemble

• Arrangement and adaptation for diverse ensembles

• Professional score and part preparation

• Collaborative work with conductors, performers, and artistic directors

Each project is crafted with readability, performance intention, and practical rehearsal needs in mind.

My Approach

I believe that a score should work as hard as the musicians who perform it.

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My goal with every set of score and parts I deliver is simple:

zero questions in rehearsal.

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Every minute a musician spends asking about a missing dynamic, an unclear articulation, or an awkward page turn is a minute the orchestra is not making music together. New works rarely receive the rehearsal time that established repertoire does. That reality demands preparation that anticipates problems before they appear in the room.
 

My process prioritizes:
 

• Clear, consistent notation

• Idiomatic writing for each instrument

• Thoughtful page turns and layout

• Practical rehearsal markings

• Parts that require no interpretation to function
   

Artistic intent matters. But clarity enables artistry.
Put another way:

clarity is kindness, and guessing is expensive.
 

When the conductor steps onto the podium, the focus should be on shaping the music — not solving avoidable technical issues.
 

That standard guides every project I take on.
 

Selected Collaborations & Commission Highlights

Awesöme Orchestra (2013-2026)

Numerous commissioned works for large ensemble performance, including:

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• A Bum in SF

• Award Tour - A Tribe Called Quest

• Emenius Sleepus - Green Day

• En Juarez - Diana Gameros

• F.O.D. - Green Day

• Roundball Rock - John Tesh

• Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone

• Steve Biko (Stir It Up) - A Tribe Called Quest

• The Door - DIA LUNA

• The Great Migration from "The Land Before Time" - James Horner

• The Rocketeer End Credits - James Horner

• Walk in Beauty - DIA LUNA

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The Dear Hunter (2013-2026)
Numerous additional orchestrations across studio and touring productions, including 13 fully orchestrated works developed independently for live and recorded contexts. Additionally, a full album of the orchestral elements was released in 2020, titled The Fox and the Hunt.

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Tracks which were independently orchestrated:

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• Blood

• Cascade

• I'm A Killer

• Is There Anybody Here?

• Ring 2 - Nature

• Ring 3 - Luxury

• Ring 4 - Patrol

• Ring 5 - Middle Class

• Ring 6 - LoTown

• Ring 7 - Industry

• Ring 8 - Poverty

• The March

• Waves

Oakland Symphony (2016–2021)
7 commissioned orchestral arrangements across multiple seasons.

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• (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman - Carole King

• How Deep Is Your Love - Bee Gees / PJ Morton

• Stand! - Sly and the Family Stone

• Stop! In the Name of Love - The Supremes / Gloria Gaynor

• Sweet Thing / That's the Way of the World - Rufus & Chaka Khan / Earth, Wind, & Fire

• Think - Aretha Franklin

• Walk Together, Children - Spiritual

Who’s Bad (The Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute Band, 2015)
6 commissioned orchestral arrangements for symphonic crossover performances.

• Bad

• Beat It

• Billie Jean

• Man in the Mirror

• Neverland Overture (original composition)

• Thriller

Matt Montgomery - Petty Troubles (2013)

5 Orchestrations for a studio album and documentary.

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1. On Top of the World

2. Petty Troubles

3. Though I Try

4. A Thousand Years

5. Wishing on a Fallen Star

Beats Antique (2014)

3 Orchestrations for their album A Thousand Faces - Act II

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• Awaken

• Dragon's Eye

• Resurrection
   

Black Rock Philharmonic (2019, 2022)
2 commissioned orchestral works.

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• Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

• Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen
   

San Francisco Philharmonic (2022)
2 commissioned orchestral works.

• BZRP - Snow Tha Product

• Me Porto Bonito - Bad Bunny

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Custom Commissions
Numerous custom commissions written for bespoke ensembles and performance settings.

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• 'Round Midnight

• "All Love Can Be" from A Beautiful Mind

• A Change Is Gonna Come

• A Charlie Brown Christmas

• A Little Mystery Music

• Anything Goes

• Artistry in Peanuts

• Autopsy

• Babes in the Woods

• Bad Self Portraits

• Ballad (People Seized with Life, Canterbury Chorale)

• Ballet Exaltare

• Before the Storm

• The Big Apple

• Bond Medley

• Bridal March

• Bum Bum Buuuum (Shock Horror (A))

• Cadillac of the Skies

• Californian Light

• Can't Take My Eyes Off You

• Careful

• Celestial Night

• Clair de Lune / Field of Dreams

• Confrontation and Finale

• Cuban Fire

• Dandelions

• Detective Closer

• Don't You Worry 'Bout A Thing

• Escapade

• Evolution: Earth's Displeasure with Man, Man's Defiance

• Evolution: Eden, Ascension, Celebration

• Evolution: Folly, Arrogance

• Exalted Summits

• Falling Snow

• Fate of the Gods

• Fate of the Gods 2

• Fate of the Gods 3

• Field of Dreams

• Ghiore Dos

• Gravity (Sonoran Desert Holiday, Short Ride in a Fast Machine)

• Greatness

• Halo

• Hope (for America)

• How Deep Is Your Love

• I Put a Spell on You

• I Want It That Way

• I Want You Gone

• Ichabod

• If We Were in Love

• Imagine

• Inferno (Firebird & Aerodynamics)

• Into the Storm

• It Don't Mean a Thing

• It Might As Well Be Spring

• It's Now or Never

• Joaquin Vanishes

• Jolly Holiday

• Judgment

• Kaval Sviri

• Kiss from a Rose

• Kiss in the Garden

• La Suerte de los Tontos

• Let It Be

• Letter from Home

• Lincolnshire Air

• Little Fugue in G minor (in D minor) & Old Hundredth

• Livin on the Edge

• Loudly Let the Trumpet Bray

• Lovely Tonight

• Lufia II

• Master of Disguise

• Master of the House

• Medea

• Mi Tierra

• Miss Sarajevo

• Mission: Impossible

• New World

• Niagara Falls

• October

• Off Shore Waltz

• One Day More

• Opener (Sonoran Desert Holiday, Erghen Diado)

• Opener (The Heat of the Day)

• Opener thru Medea

• Orange Blossom Special

• Over the Mountains

• Paradiso (Sleep, Apocalyptic Dreams, Firebird)

• Passage (in two Parts)

• Purgatorio (American Beauty & Sleep)

• Put Your Records On

• Red Cape Tango

• Rewind Opener (Urban Dances, Ballet Exaltare)

• Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini

• River Transition

• Shades of Blue

• Shake Your Groove Thing

• Shorts 1 (Dirt Off Your Shoulder, How We Do, Just a Lil Bit, Don't Phunk with My Heart

• Shorts 2 (Go DJ, Outta Control, Soul Survivor, The Way You Move, Lose My Breath)

• Shostakovich Ballad

• Shostakovich Closer

• Shostakovich Opener

• Sin Wagon

• Sit Down

• Sleepy Hollow

• Slipping Away

• Song without Words

• Sonoran Desert Holiday (Ballad)

• Spin Cycle

• Stay

• Steam, Moondances

• Stormworks (Timestorm)

• Sure on this Shining Night

• Swan Lake Medley

• Sweet Dreams (Slipping Away)

• Sweet Love

• Tag (Svatba (The Wedding))

• That's Amore

• The Fountain (Scythian Suite, The Canyon, Awayday)

• The Headless Horseman (Medea)

• The House I Live In

• The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

• The Wind and Rain

• Theme from Shaft

• Think Redux

• Throne Room

• Tuxedo Junction

• Urban Dances

• Utopia

• War of Angels

• Warm-Up Chorale (from "The Year of the Dragon")

• Wedding March

• Wheel of Fortune

• When It Seems That All is Lost

• When You Wish Upon A Star

• Worship With Me: Pyre Scene

• Worship With Me: Walking