Awards & Accolades

  • Garden State Film Festival, Best Student Orchestral Score (2024)

  • Marvin Hamlisch International Music Award, Nominee (winner to be announced Spring 2025)

  • Game Audio Diversity Alliance (GADA) Scholars Program, recipient, attended GameSoundCon in LA (2024)

  • ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, Composer Spotlight (2024)

  • Game Audio Network Guild Scholars Program, recipient, attended GameSoundCon in LA (2023)

  • Joy Music House (JMH) Score Production Workshop, mentored by Catherine Joy (2023)

  • NYU Film Scoring Composition Competition, winner, had orchestral work "Prey" premiered in NY (2023)

  • MYO Emerging Composers Competition, 2nd Prize in orchestral division (2022)

  • One Found Sound Emerging Composer Award, Runner-Up (2022)

  • New Music USA, Composer Collaborative Project (2021)

  • Curtis Institute of Music, Young Artist Summer Program (2021)

Professional Experience

  • Lead Composer at Bolero Game Studio – Currently working on the games Old & Gray and KODA (since 2024)

  • Jury at Student World Impact Film Festival (SWIFF), evaluates films for the largest global student film festival (2024)

  • Composer at Strike Audio, composes production music for radio and TV broadcasting (since 2023)

  • Composer & Music Editor at ForGood Sound Studio, contributed to the TV series 'Not A Murder Story' (2023)

  • Intern at NYU Screen Scoring Summer Workshops, assisted in teaching Film, TV, and Video Games scoring workshops (2023)

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