University Teaching

Temple University, Philadelphia

Adjunct Faculty, Fall 2021 - Spring 2022;  Fall 2023 - present

Weekly individual lessons for undergraduate and graduate student composers where students are immersed in contemporary practices, theories, and techniques through the study of 20th- and 21st-century music literature. The student creates original work in professional notation which are reviewed by the composition faculty at the end of the term in a brief interview with the student.

Columbia University, New York

Early Career Fellow, Department of Music,  Fall 2021 - Spring 2022

Beginner students explore and develop the craft of music composition collaboratively and through individual lessons, culminating in a new work for professional ensemble, premiered in New York City.

This course provides a critical survey of the development of electronic and computer music and sound from around the globe. From early experiments and precursors in the late 19th century through to modern-day experimental and popular music practices, this course aims to trace the development of technologies used in the production of electronic and computer derived sound and music alongside the economic, cultural, and social forces that contribute to the development of audiences.

Advanced students explore and develop the craft of music composition collaboratively and through individual lessons, culminating in a new work for professional ensemble, premiered in New York City.

Students develop the basic tools needed to interpret and compose with Western music notation.


GSAS Teaching Scholar, Department of Music, Spring 2020

Designed and taught this new course as a GSAS Teaching Scholar. The course examines networks of actors (composers, venues, critics, publications, performers, events) to explore the unique and complex topology of experimental music communities in the United States and the subversive threads that tie them together.

Graduate Student Instructor, Fall 2016 - Summer 2020

Co-created course materials and syllabus for this graduate music theory course introduces students to microtonal music through hands-on exercises.

Graduate students investigate and analyze styles and techniques of music since 1900, carried out in part through individual projects.

Mentored undergraduate students in musical composition in shorter forms. Basic issues of musical structure and expression are explored in traditional and contemporary repertory.

This course introduces students to the potential of digital synthesis by means of the MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface). Teaches proficiency in elementary and advanced MIDI techniques.

In this graduate level course, students explore ways of visually and aurally representing datasets using Python as a means of better understanding the world around us.

Designed course materials, devised syllabus, assignments and lectures for this semester-long core class and historical survey of the Western classical tradition required for all undergraduates at Columbia University.

Community Teaching

Marian Anderson Young Artists Program, Philadelphia

Teaching Artist in Music Composition, Summer 2022 - present

Individual composition lessons for Marian Anderson Award Artist—a gifted high school student from Philadelphia.

Play On Philly Summer Program, Philadelphia 

Introduction to Composition: Curricular Designer and Instructor, Summer 2022

Play On Philly provides underserved children in Philadelphia a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.

Harlem Village Academies High, New York

Founder and Director of Music Studio Club, 2019 - 2022

A weekly club for high school students to create music using technology.

Instructor of Piano, Composition, and Music Theory,  2017 - 2018

Private Lessons for high school students without access to music instruction.

International Community Music School, Basel

Piano, Composition, and Music Theory Instructor, 2012 - 2014

Private lessons for secondary school students at a well-resourced international school in Switzerland.

Workshops and Masterclasses

OAcademy Gabriela Ortiz Composing Studio, Virtual

Masterclass for an international cohort of ten rising composers, June 2023

Young Composers' Workshop, Distat Terra Festival, Choele Choel, Argentina

Artist-in-Residence & Composition Tutor, December 2022

Individual lessons for an international cohort of student composers, leading to a premiere by The Riot Ensemble or Quartetto Maurice.

Teaching Recognitions

Columbia University, GSAS Teaching Scholar, Spring 2020

Designed and taught a new course Reimagining Resistance: Sound as Subversion in 20th- and 21st-Century American Experimentalism as a Teaching Scholar. The course examines networks of actors (composers, venues, critics, publications, performers, events) to explore the unique and complex topology of experimental music communities in the United States and the subversive threads that tie them together.

Columbia University, Lead Teaching Fellow, Department of Music, 2019 - 2020

Organized teaching-related workshops, discussions, and presentations for graduate students in the Department of Music to explore and share pedagogical practices. Topics included inclusive teaching, syllabus design, collaborative learning, and the use of technology and multimedia in the classroom.