I’m happy to share with my family and friends that I won 1st prize in the Southeastern Composers League Philip Slates Memorial Competition for Graduate Students (2017) with my piece “You Haven’t Said a Word” for cello quartet, which I…
I’m excited to officially share with my family and friends that I’ve been awarded a full-ride scholarship and a $100,000 fellowship to move to Los Angeles and write music, earning my PHD in music composition at UCLA. Subsequently, this…
November 16, 2016 I recently did an interesting musical arrangement for TEDxFIU. An environmental scientist charted data from a Florida lake over time to pitches and I arranged them for a string trio. It’s sort of like a cool hybrid…
The Florida International University newspaper had nice things to say about the recent premier of my work “Peace In Pain” for guitar and cello on Nov. 6, 2015. Norris’s performance was split between a guitar and cello. The…
In this video I explain how the making of Tink’s Time came about. I talk about how we met, who introduced us, the writing process and more. I wrote a blog post about it while it was…
I’m proud to have produced on this project. It’s still crazy to me that it was done in her basement, and is reaching so far and making lists over artists with six figure budgets. Variance Magazine names WD2 the 46th…
FSD Names Tink’s Winter’s Diary 2 The 15th Best Chicago Project of 2014. 15. Tink – Winter’s Diary 2 Tink’s been having a stellar year so far, and it all kicked off with the release of her last project, Winter’s…
9. Tink, Winter’s Diary 2 Before Timbaland swept in and declared Tink his new protégé, the Chicago artist was already playing at a college level with a string of mixtapes that skillfully juggled rapping and singing. The spice of…