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RESUME
     
         
 
AWARDS AND HONORS
 
Best Original Vocal Song - Choral, 2006
*"Baba Yetu"--Civilization IV
Game Audio Network Guild
 
Rookie Of The Year, 2006
(Best Newcomer to the Game Industry)
Game Audio Network Guild
 
Honorable Mention: Best Music, 2005
*Civilization IV
GameSpy
 
2003 Sundance Composing Fellowship Sundance Institute
 
Horovitz Composition Prize, 2000
*Top film composition prize
Royal College of Music
 
2000 Fulbright Scholarship for Film Scoring Fulbright Commission, UK
 
FILMS
 
ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
Icon Productions
Deborah Dickson, dir.
Mel Gibson, exec. prod.
 
WITNESSES TO A SECRET WAR
Independent
Deborah Dickson, dir.
 
X2: X-MEN UNITED
20th Century Fox
Bryan Singer, dir.
*Additional Music (uncredited),
Orchestrations

 
LILO AND STITCH 2
Walt Disney Pictures
Mike Disa, Bonus Materials dir.
*Additional Music, Bonus Materials
 
THE PRINCE AND ME 2
Lions Gate Entertainment
Catherine Cyran, dir.
*Additional Music
 
SHARK BAIT
DigiArt/Wonderworld
Howard Baker, John Fox, dirs.
*Additional Music
 
THE INSATIABLE
*Starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Michael Biehn, Charlotte Ayanna
Cary Solomon and
Chuck Konzelman, dir.
 
IMAGINARY HEROES
Sony Pictures Classics
Dan Harris, dir.
*Orchestrations
 
POOH'S HEFFALUMP MOVIE
Walt Disney Pictures
Frank Nissen, dir.
*Music Sequencing
 
MULAN 2
Walt Disney Pictures

*Music Sequencing
 
KIND OF A BLUR
*Starring Sandra Oh
Jon Goldman, dir.
 
GHOSTS OF THE ABYSS
Walt Disney Pictures
James Cameron, dir.
*Music Sequencing
 
HOLES
Walt Disney Pictures
Andrew Davis, dir.
*Music Sequencing
 
THE JUNGLE BOOK 2
Walt Disney Pictures
Steve Trenbirth, dir.
*Music Sequencing
 
THE RING
Dreamworks Pictures
Gore Verbinski, dir.
*Assistant to Hans Zimmer
 
THE RECRUIT
Spyglass Entertainment
Roger Donaldson, dir.
*Assistant to Klaus Badelt
 
VIDEO GAMES
 
CIVILIZATION IV
Firaxis/2K Games
WINNER: 2006 GANG Award,
Best Choral Composition, 'Baba Yetu'
 
SID MEIER'S RAILROADS
Firaxis/2K Games
*Song: 'Baba Yetu'
 
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN ONLINE
Disney Interactive

 
TOON TOWN
Disney Interactive

 
FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE
SILVER SURFER

Firaxis/Visual Concepts
*Trailer
 
TELEVISION
 
FISHBOWL
PBS
Kayo Hatta, dir.
WINNER: 2007 Regional Emmy Award
 
TEN DAYS THAT CHANGED AMERICA: FREEDOM SUMMER
History Channel
Marco Williams, dir.
 
BATTLE PLAN UNDER FIRE
(AKA THE PERFECT WAR)
PBS (Nova)/
ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen)/
New York Times Television
C. Scott Willis, dir.
 
MLK BOULEVARD; THE CONCRETE DREAM
Discovery Channel/New York Times Television
Marco Williams, dir.
 
COMMERCIALS
 
Commercial and advertising work handled through boutique music house Tin Works. Major clients include PUMA, VERIZON, APPLE, MORGAN STANLEY, and NOKIA.
 
CONCERT/THEATRE
 
NIGHT SINGS ITS SONGS
US Premiere of playwright Jon Fosse
Sarah Cameron Sunde, dir.
 
LACRYMOSA
String Quartet
Commissioned by US Embassy/
UK Fulbright Commission
 
PRODUCTION
 
JORANE: "The New And The Now"
Tacca Musique, Canada
*Transcriptions,
String Arrangements

 
JORANE: "Evapore"
Tacca Musique, Canada
*Transcriptions,
String Arrangements

 
TALISMAN: "After Silence"
Independent
*Producer,
Vocal Arrangements

 
TALISMAN: "Anthem"
Independent
*Associate Producer,
Vocal Arrangements

 
TALISMAN: "Held In Shining"
Independent
*Vocal Arrangements
 
PERFORMANCES
 
Civilization IV featured in the Video Games Live concert tour, with major performances at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, Hammersmith Apollo in London, and Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Other major cities around the world include: Amsterdam, Edmonton, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, San Francisco, Phoenix, and more.
 
Played keyboards in "Miracle" benefit concert: Chennai, India. Featuring Michael Brook and U. Srinivas (2003).
 
Toured with Sinead O'Connor and The Chieftains, conducted background choir (1999).
 
Conducted choral concerts at the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA.
 
EDUCATION
 
Royal College of Music MMus Composition for Screen
*Top-ranked composition student
 
Oxford University Composition studies
 
Stanford University BA Music and English Literature
MA Humanities (Film Theory)
*With honors