I am honored to be listed on NPR’s  The Mix: 100 Composers Under 40

I was recently selected to be featured by the PD Soros fellowship:  We are completing the film for my opera, Oceanic Verses, this Spring at Sound Res, in Italy, with the great dance company Emio Greco | PC, and we just finished the LMCC Governors Island Intensive Residency. In December I was  awarded a Hermitage Residency to complete the work….this will culminate in performances at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Chorus & Novus NY conducted by Julian Wachner and then in NY on the River to River festival with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus joining during summer 2012. This season finishes with a trip to Zimbabwe for the Harare Music Fesitval (Cornelius Dufallo and I will be presenting House of Solitude) and a residency at MASS MoCA for Oceanic Verses. The following season brings premieres at the Krannert Center and the Barbican Centre with the BBC orchestra.

This year I am a Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers fellow, and in May, I will return to Caracas, Venezuela for a premiere of a new work in the XVII Festival Latinoamericano de Música. I will also continue my work with the New York Philharmonic’s Very Young Composers curriculum (for which I just edited our new book) and the amazing El Sistema Program.