About

i’m always writing.

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’m currently a graduate composition student at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, studying under Professor Eun Young Lee. In 2019, I was awarded the prestigious Harry Moore Award from the Lyford Cay Foundation in the Bahamas, as well as a grant from the Nassau Music Society, for his outstanding work as an artist. I participated in the selective ASCAP/NYU film scoring workshop in New York in 2017, and have won several original composition awards from Pensacola Christian College. I firmly believe that representation is important across the board, and I aim to be the first full-time Bahamian composer.

This semester, I had two works premiere at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee:

• Seek Ye the Lord - SATB Choir

• Twinkling in the Moonlight - Soprano & Piano