My goal as a composer is to write interesting, stimulating and engaging music that will both challenge and reward the listener. I write in the classical tradition, with an eclectic mix of stylistic influences, including modern classical (“new music”), serial, renaissance, baroque, jazz, folk, and other influences.
I compose part time (mostly evenings and weekends), as my current full time job is as a professor of biostatistics. My original plan in life was to be a professional composer, but then I discovered that I enjoyed mathematics and science to a similar degree, and throughout my life have alternated between and juggled both interests in one way or another. I have a B.M. in Music Composition from Brigham Young University (1988) and an M.M. in Music Composition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1999).