A Bit About Me

It all started when…

Growing up, I especially enjoyed deconstructing the music that I heard: listening to it with the intent to strip it to its bare bones and discover what made it work.

Orchestral music has always been my secret passion. I would sit for hours listening to and analyzing music from Debussy, John Williams, Ravel, John Powell, Holst, Darin Atwater, and countless others. It was through listening to their music that I learned how music lived, thrived, blended, balanced. and how it influenced the emotions.

Writing music, be it choral pieces, an orchestral poem, or a score to a film, always gives me a different kind of satisfaction. Those hours spent in front of my computer, piano, or a sheet of paper is where I find the most rewarding moments of my life.

As a Bahamian and a citizen of the Caribbean community, I was heavily immersed in music from my youth. Growing up in church, I played piano and tenor sax, sang solos, and composed short arrangements for the church’s band, In elementary school, I was a part of the boys choir and was introduced to a variety of styles including classical literature and Bahamian folk music. In high school, I was a part of the band and was introduced to soca, reggae, and jazz styles by friends and classmates. After attending a Junkanoo parade for the first time and hearing the blasts of trumpets and feeling the booms of the bass and goat skin drums, I further-developed my appreciation for Bahamian cultural music. My entire childhood was littered with the music of so many different styles and genres, which led to my wanting to write my own music.

It has always been a dream of mine to take music from a variety of sources and and fuse it with orchestral music to create something different, Like people, who are the blends of their ancestors, much of the music we listen to is created by similar means: a little form here and a little from there to create something different. Something new.

I’m ALWAYS LEARNING

I am a PhD student and adjunct professor in the Screen Scoring department at New York University. As a former school teacher and church musician, I have taught and collaborated with countless musicians over the last decade.

My goals, like my skill set, are diverse. As a film composer, I aim to collaborate with filmmakers in producing meaningful projects that will leave lasting impressions on the global community; as a concert composer, I will create new music to add to the growing list of new works by Caribbean composers; as an educator, I aspire to train and enlighten students of diverse backgrounds.