Curriculum Vitae
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Music Performance and Literature, Mills College, Sept. 2011 - May 2013
Bachelor of Music, Performance, California State University Long Beach, Sept. 2007 - May 2011
Associate of Arts, Music, Rio Hondo College, Jan. 2003 - May 2007
Teaching
Drum Coach - Music and Academics Resisting the System Program, San Francisco, Sept. 2024 - present
Music Instructor - San Francisco Waldorf High School, Aug. 2018 - present
Drum Instructor - Community Music Center, San Francisco, Dec. 2016 - present
Dance Accompanist - California Brazil Camp, Cazadero, CA, Aug. 2018 - present
Teaching Artist - Thingamajigs, Various Oakland elementary schools, Oct. 2014 - 2021
Drum Instructor - Red House Studios, Walnut Creek, CA, July 2016 - Dec. 2016
Teaching Artist - Alameda Music Project, Maya Lin School, Alameda, CA, Oct. 2014 – June 2015
Dance Accompanist - Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, Aug. 2014 - May 2017
Assistant Director of Music Improvisation Ensemble I - Mills College, Oakland, Sept. 2012 – May 2017
Dance Accompanist - University of California, Berkeley, Aug. 2013 - May 2017
Dance Accompanist - Oberlin Dance Collective, San Francisco, June 2013 - May 2017
Dance Accompanist - Mills College Dance Department, Oakland, Sept. 2012 - May 2017
Awards, Residencies and Creative Organizing
Faculty Partnership Grant, San Francisco Community Music Center, Mar. 2025
Emergent Sound Practices, Curator/Organizer, Sept. 2024 - present
Fulbright US Student Program, Cultural Transmission Through the Music of Candomblé, 2022
Fulbright US Student Program, Investigating the Language of Candomblé Drumming, 2020
Alliance for California Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, Feb, 2018 - Sept. 2018
Active Music Series, Curator/Organizer, April 2015 - Jan. 2020
Faculty Partnership Grant, San Francisco Community Music Center, March 2019
Composer in Residence, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, May - June 2016
Temescal Arts Center, 510 Artist In Residence, Aug. - Sept. 2014
Margaret Lyon Music Student Prize, Mills College, May 2013
Outstanding Student Award in Music, Rio Hondo College, 2007
Outstanding Student of the Year in Piano, Rio Hondo College, 2006
Commissions for Dance
Deborah Karp Dance Projects, This Is How We Begin, The Flight Deck, Oakland, 2019
Deborah Karp Dance Projects, Untitled (solo percussion), Beatnik Studios, Sacramento, 2017
Deborah Karp Dance Projects, Site Surrounding, West Wave Dance Festival, San Francisco, 2016
Mills College Repertory Dance Company, Misplaced Nameless, Oakland, 2014
Deborah Karp Dance Projects, Standing on One Leg, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, 2014
Holley Farmer, Clay, Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, 2014
Select Performances and Recordings
Percussion for Umi Vaughan’s Silencing the Drum book release, Destiny Arts Center, Oakland, Nov. 2024
Scott Amendola’s Orchestra di Pazzi, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, Sept. 2024
Live accompaniment for Symbology of Orixá with Rosangela Silvestre, San Jose, Sept. 2024
Live Recording of Auntie and Tebs with Grex, Dresher Ensemble Studio, Oakland, June 2024
Jordan Glenn’s BEAK, The Exploratorium, SF, June 2024
La Pátio de Atrás by Robert Ashley, The Lab, SF, March 2024
Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency with Jordan Glenn’s BEAK, Oakland, Feb. 2024
New works by Michael S. Rothkopf and Ric Louchard, Center for New Music, San Francisco, Oct. 2023
Sounds of Slowing Down, The Lab, San Francisco, Sept. 2023
What the World Needs Now: the music of Burt Bacharach with the Red Room Orchestra, The Chapel,
San Francisco, Aug. 2023
Presentations of Brazilian Candomblé with Egbe Omo Alairá, Smithsonian Folklife Festival,
Washington DC, June 2023
American Ledger by Raven Chacon, The Lab, San Francisco, Feb. 2023
Sonic Mountain by Hisham Akira Bharoocha, The Donum Estate, Sonoma, CA, Sept. 2019
Ascension with Golden Gate Men’s Chorus, Mission Dolores Basilica, San Francisco, May 2019
Cultural Tradition in Diaspora, Faculty Concert, Community Music Center, San Francisco, March 2019
SO AR, Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, July 2018
1st Place in Brazilian Category with Grupo Samba Rio, 40th Annual San Francisco Carnaval, May 2018
New works by Michael S. Rothkopf and Ric Louchard, Center for New Music, San Francisco, April 2018
SO AR, multimedia event with new compositions for film and dance, Temescal Arts Center,
Oakland, Feb. 2018
Performance of new works from the John Adams New Composers Program, Crowden School of Music,
Berkeley, Nov. 2017
Collaboration with Las Sucias, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Brava Theatre, Sept. 2017
Modern Jewish Minimalists: The William Winant Percussion Group Performs Steve Reich, Contemporary
Jewish Museum, San Francisco, Sept. 2017
Inuksuit by John Luther Adams, SF Jazz at Sutro Baths, San Francisco, July 2017
Failures, Prototypes and Works in Progress, duo performances with instrument builder Sung Kim,
Exploratorium, San Francisco, May 2017
Almazônica (premiere) 13th Annual Cuba Caribe Festival, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, April 2017
Video recording for Sambamasterclass.com, International Capoeira Angola Foundation,
Oakland, May 2016
Percussion for Naytronix supporting Kneebody and Daedelus, Pacific Northwest, Feb. 2016
Premiere of works by University of Virginia graduate students, Mills College, Oakland, Feb. 2016
Debut of Bop Pad electronic percussion instrument by Keith McMillen Instruments, Gray Area,
San Francisco, Oct. 2015
Percussion for video game Gunman Taco Truck, New and Improved Studios, Oakland, June 2015
In C by Terry Riley with the William Winant Percussion Group, Berkeley Art Museum, Sept. 2014
Animals by Joseph Byrd at Other Minds 19, SF Jazz Center, Feb. 2014
Taglish with Grex at 16th Annual US Asian America Festival, Red Poppy Art House, San Francisco,
April 2013
Planetary Dance with Anna Halprin, Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley, April 2013
Premier of Work Around the World by Aaron Gervais with the William Winant Percussion Group,
Other Minds Festival 18, Jewish Community Center, San Francisco, March 2013
The Days are The Same by Aram Shelton with the Oakland Active Orchestra, Switchboard Music
Festival, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, March 2013
Would You Wear My Eyes? (premiere) by Roscoe Mitchell, Mills College, March 2013
Burning (premiere) by Rachel Devorah Wood Rome, Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival, Vessel
Gallery, Oakland, October 2012
Building Towers in the Sand (premiere)by Scott Siler with the William Winant Percussion Group, Music
for People and Thingamajigs Festival, Mills College, Oakland, October 2012
Discography
Lopez / Kay / Wick, untitled, Monsoon Music, 2022
Naytronix, Other Possibilities, Overseas Artists Recordings, OAR-031, 2021
Grex, Everything You Said Was Wrong, Geomancy Records, G1509B, 2020
Samson Y Hiss, Poison Circus, self-release, 2020
Naytronix, Air, Botcave Recording, 2019
Grex, Electric Ghost Parade, Brux Records, BRUX 003, 2018
Fletcher Pratt, Dub Sessions, Vol. 4, Crash Symbols , 2018
BEAK / Jordan Glenn, My Bike Music, 2018
Grex, A Love Supreme, Brux Records, BRUX P002, 2017
Jim Ryan/Jordan Glenn, Mindless Thing, Edgetone Records, EDT 4178, 2017
Las Sucias, Chúpate Estas LP, The Label, 2017
Melody Parker, Archipelago, self-release, 2016
Dominique Leone, San Francisco, self-release, 2015
Naytronix, Mister Divine, City Slang Records, SLANG50085, 2015
Quattour Elephantis, self-titled, Edgetone Records, EDT4157, 2015
Grex, Monster Music, Brux Records, BRUX 001, 2014
Roscoe Mitchell, Not Yet: Six Compositions, Mutable Music, 17550-2, 2013
The Vespertines, One Last Time Around the Equator, self-release, 2011
Wild Pack of Canaries, The Coroner Can’t Wait, Mountain Man Records, 2010