Curriculum Vitae

History of music theory, esp. 20th century

Musical modernism after 1900

Atonal/non-tonal music analysis

Global music historiography

Archival research, transcription, translation

Critical Organology

Monograph

Inventing Atonal Music: Ultramodernism from Mexico to Russia (under contract; in progress)

Peer-Reviewed Article

“Julián Carrillo, Laws of Musical Metamorphosis, and the Landscape of Early Atonal Thought.” In Music Theory in the Plural, ed. Edwin Li, Chris Stover, and Anna Yu Wang. Special issue, Music Theory Online 30. no. 4 (December 2024). http://doi.org/10.30535/mto.30.4.17. (Invited. Issue awarded 2025 SMT Citation of Special Merit)

Book Chapter

“Utopian Futurism in the Music Theory of Ivan Wyschnegradsky.” In Musik-Theorie und Zukunft: Perspektiven einer polyphonen Musikgeschichte, 219–36, ed. Anne Hameister and Jan Philipp Sprick. Transcript-Verlag, 2023.

Anthology Entry

“A Wooden Teponaztli from Tlaxcala: Relic of Pre-Hispanic, Mesoamerican Musical Thought.” In Thinking Music: Global Sources in the History of Music Theory, ed. Thomas Christensen, Lester Hu, and Carmel Raz. University of Chicago Press. (Invited, forthcoming)

Book Review

Review of An Unnatural Attitude: Phenomenology in Weimar Musical Thought by Benjamin Steege. Music Theory Spectrum 45, no. 1 (2023): 168–72. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mtac032. 

External

Society for Music Theory | SMT-40 Dissertation Fellowship (2024)

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | Doctoral Fellowship (2022–23)

Paul Sacher Stiftung | Research Scholarship (2022)

RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group | Travel Bursary (for highest-scoring abstracts) (2022)

Institute for Russian Music Studies | Best Student Paper Award (2021)

Internal

Harvard University Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences | Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2024–25), Jens Aubrey Westengard Fund (2022), GSAS Summer School Tuition Fellowship (2021)

Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning | Pedagogy Fellowship (2022–24), Certificate of Distinction in Teaching (2021)

Harvard University Charles Warren Center for American History | Research Grant (2023)

Harvard University Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies | Research Grant (2022)

Harvard University Department of Music | Oscar S. Schafer Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching (2022), Richard F. French Fellowship (2021), Harry and Marjorie Ann Slim Memorial Fellowship (2019, 2021), Wesley Weyman Fund Award (2019–21)

Simon Fraser University | Amir Alaghband Award in Contemporary Arts (2015), School for Contemporary Arts Scholarship (2015), FCAT Undergraduate Reserach Fellowship Award (2014), SFU Service Award (2014)

Invited Talks

“Varèse’s Pyramid” | Paul Sacher Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland

Conferences Organized

Harvard University Graduate Music Forum, Graduate Student Conference

Refereed Conference Presentations

“Boulez in the Fifteenth Arrondissement”

American Musicological Society | Remote, 2026

“Hacking mod 12: Quartertones in Undergraduate Music Theory”

Music Theory Pedagogies Reimagined | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2026

“Messiaen, mod 24”

West Coast Conference of Music Theory and Analysis | UC Irvine, 2026

“Modernism and Indigeneity in Post-Revolutionary Mexico”

 Global Musical Modernities and Local Agency | The University of Toronto, 2026

“Reorienting Boulez’s Early Thought: Dialogues at Paris’s Periphery”

Boulez Centenary Conference | Cleveland, OH, 2025

“Restoring Carlos Chávez’s Modernism”         

Society for American Music | Tacoma, WA, 2025

Society for Music Theory | Jacksonville, FL, 2024

“Counter-Narrative in the Music Theory of Julián Carrillo”                                    

Biennial International Conference on Music Since 1900 | Leuven, Belgium, 2024

SMT Global Interculturalism and Music Peripheries Interest Group | Denver, CO, 2023

“The Global Turn, Historicized: Henry Cowell, the

Rhythmicon, and Instruments of Global Music Theory”

Society for American Music | Detroit, MI, 2024

IMS Global History of Music Study Group | Manilla, Philippines, 2023

Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures | Harvard University, 2023

 “Analysis, Materialism, and Speculation”

Epistemologies of Music Analysis | Paris, France, 2023

RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group | King’s College, London, 2022

“‘Another Kind of Internationalism’: Reconsidering Henry

Cowell’s Dissonant Counterpoint”

Society for American Music| Minneapolis, MI, 2023

Society for Music Theory| New Orleans, LA, 2022

“Historical Teleology in Ivan Wyschnegradsky’s Theory of

Всезвучие”

SMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group| New Orleans, LA, 2022

“Utopian Futurism in the Music Theory of Ivan 

Wyschnegradsky”

Institute for Russian Music Studies Annual Conference | Vipiteno, Italy (Hybrid), 2021

»Musik/-Theorie und Zukunft in der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart« | Remote, 2021

SMT Russian Music Theory Interest Group | Remote, 2020

“Some Problems with ‘Musical Reality’: A Response to Dean Rickles”

SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group | Columbus, OH, 2019

“A Cultural Biography of the Metronome”

New Materialist Perspectives in Sound | Columbia University, 2019

Invited Departmental Talks

“Dissonant Counterpoint on the World Stage” | The University of British Columbia, 2025

Dartmouth College Department of Music, Proofreader

Richard Beaudoin, Sounds As They Are: The unwritten music in classical recordings (Oxford University Press, 2024) (2023)

Simon Fraser University Faculty of Communication, Art, and Technology

FCAT Undergraduate Research Fellow, affiliated with Metacreation Lab for Creative AI (2013–16) 

Lecturer (Instructor of Record), University of Massachusetts Amherst     

Music Appreciation (173 students) (2022)

Sole Instructor, Harvard University Department of Music

Theorizing Global Modernisms (Sophomore Tutorial) (2024)

Pedagogy Fellow, Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

Bok Pedagogy Fellow (Consulted with instructors across Harvard on their teaching) (2023–24)

Department Pedagogy Fellow (Co-led pedagogy course with Anne Shreffler) (2022–23)

Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

Colloquium on Teaching Pedagogy | Teaching Fellow for Anne Shreffler (2022–23)

Music From Earth | Head Teaching Fellow for Alexander Rehding (2021)

Music Theory II | Teaching Fellow for Landon Morrison (2021)

Music Theory I | Teaching Fellow for Joseph Jakubowski (2020)

Invited Guest Lectures

Compositional and Analytical Approaches to Post-Tonal Music (Undergraduate Course) (2025)

The University of British Columbia, Anabel Maler

History of Music Theory (Graduate Seminar) (2024)

Harvard University, Alexander Rehding

CIRTL Associate, The University of British Columbia (2025)

Completed intensive Faculty Instructional Skills Workshop on 

learner-centered teaching

Teaching Certificate, Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning (2024)

Completed three pedagogy seminars and a private teaching 

consultation

“Mesa de Trabajo. Los Pianos Metamorphoseadores y sus respectivos pianos técnicos” (2024)

State Secretary of Culture | San Luis Potosí, Mexico 

Argued for preservation of Julián Carrillo’s pianos

“Thinking Music: Global Sources for the History of Music Theory” (2024)

University of Chicago, Neubauer Collegium | Chicago, IL

“Marxism, Music Studies, and Hermeneutics” (2023)

Society for Music Theory Graduate Student Workshop, led by Sumanth Gopinath | Denver CO

Committees   

Society for Music Theory, Committee on Workshops (2025–27)

Peer Review

Cambridge University Press, Edited Volume Proposal (2025)

Journal of Musicology (2025)

Sessions Chaired

“Global Lineage and Circulation” | Global Musical 

Modernities and Local Agency, University of Toronto (2026)

“Noisy Interfaces” | Instruments, Interfaces, Infrastructures: 

An Interdisciplinary Conference on Musical Media, Harvard 

University Department of Music (2023)

Positions

Co-Chair, SMT Autographs and Archival Documents Interest Group (2025–27)

Co-Chair, SMT Music and Philosophy Interest Group (2019–22)

Conference Assistance

Society for Music Theory, Livestream Operator (2022–23)

Society for American Music, Silent Auction Volunteer (2023)

Harvard University Department of Music

Friday Musicology Colloquium Coordinator (2021–22)

Chair of Graduate Music Forum (2020–21)

Simon Fraser University Goldcorp Centre for the Arts

Assistant to New Students and Retention (2015–16)

Vice-President of Finance for Music Student Union (2013–15)

Positions

Vancouver New Music, Community Liaison (2013–16, 2025–)

Public Lecture

“Machine Learning: An Education”                                                                                             

FCAT Undergraduate Research Conference | Surrey City Hall, BC (2015)

String Quartet: string quartet; 6’28” (2015)

Performed at Bozzini Quartet Composition Lab Concert, Vancouver, BC (2015)

Final Hour: clarinet, trombone, bassoon, percussion; 13’21” (2015)

Surveillance: drum set, Max MSP; 2’20” (2015)

Through: violin, viola, cello, piano; 9’25” (2014)

Performed at Pro Musica Sonic Boom Festival, Pyatt Hall, Vancouver, BC (2015)

Dreams of Gentleness: viola, cello, piano, Ableton Live; 8’ (2014)

Performed at ASCENSION Contemporary Music+Dance, Vancouver, BC (2014)

Intervals: soprano, viola, piano; text by Robert Creeley; 6’55” (2013) 

English (native)

Spanish (intermediate)

French (beginner)

Russian (Reading)

German (Reading)

American Musicological Society

Society for Music Theory

International Musicological Society

Society for American Music

Instruments: Drum set, piano

Harvard University: Organized virtual book club for department during COVID isolation

Simon Fraser University: Fundraised for undergraduate-led concert of collaborative multimedia works, involving composers, choreographers, dancers, and filmmakers