I am very thankful to Duquesne University string players for their reading and recording of my string quartet, Intimate Stream[s]. Written in 2008 and recently revised, the piece reflects my ongoing exploration of musical syntax as an interplay of music cognition and philosophy, notably of the creation and perception of musical harmony-timbre(s) and the causality [...]

Earlier this fall, on a rainy Saturday evening, I had a unique opportunity to play the Messiaen’s venerable pipe organ at La Trinité in Paris. It was not only touching the very keys that Messiaen played that made the experience rather surreal, but hearing the enveloping sound resonating from the instrument into the space that [...]

I am very happy to announce that I have been awarded the Iron Composer Prize at the Iron Composer composition contest at Baldwin-Wallace College.. As one of five composers who were invited to compete in person, I was also assigned in the morning of the event an instrumentation and a secret ingredient for a to-be-composed [...]