I was born in Payson, Utah in February of 1989. My family moved around a lot due to my father's job in Facility and Arena management. I spent my childhood playing every team sport you can think of, skateboarding, riding his bike to school, and taking piano lessons. In high school, I spent my time on the basketball team, in the choir room, with my friends in a rock band, and on the theater stage. I decided to study music education after my time in choir at Olathe East High School in Olathe, Kansas.

      I did not start composing art music until the age of 21 when I returned from my mission for the LDS church in Arizona in 2010. My first full work was setting Robert Frost's poem The Road Not Taken for choir. This work was premiered by the BYU-Idaho Collegiate Singers under the direction of Dr. Randall Kempton. This piece also won 3rd place in the 2013 Student Research and Creative Works Conference. That piece got me into the art and I grew a passion for writing. While studying at Brigham Young University-Idaho under the direction of Dr. Randall Kempton, I gained a deeper understanding in the choral art. I joined the Student Composers Society in 2011 and participated in their student composers recital every semester until my graduation in 2014. In 2013, I was commissioned by Andy Matthews and the BYU-Idaho Student Living Department to compose the music for a 4 minute campus video entitled Wounded on the Battlefield. My final semester at BYU-Idaho I took private composition lessons from Darrell Brown. As an assistant conductor for the BYU-Idaho Men's Choir under direction of Dr. Kevin Brower, the choir performed two of my hymn arrangements which I also conducted during the fall semester of 2013. My one act operetta The Furious Itch of Novelty was one of four scenes (selected out of 9 submissions) by the Opera Scenes Committee to be performed in the December Opera Scenes program.

      After my graduation from BYU-Idaho, I was accepted to BYU for a Master's Degree in Choral Conducting, studying with Dr. Ronald Staheli, Dr. Andrew Crane, and Prof. Rosalind Hall. While at BYU, I have been commissioned to arrange a TTBB arrangement of Through Heaven's Eyes from the Prince of Egypt by Stephen Schwartz, which was performed on March 20th, 2015. I was also commissioned by the Choral Department to Orchestrate excerpts from West Side Story for the Interkulter festival hosted in Provo in February of 2016. I was also enrolled in composition classes taught by Dr. Christian Asplund and David Zabriskie. 

 

      As a conductor I have been fortunate to participate in many special occasions. I have been the assistant conductor for BYU-Idaho Colleigate Singers, BYU-Idao Men's Choir, BYU-Idaho University Choir, and BYU Concert Choir. I've been fortunate enough to conduct my own arrangment of Impossible Dream from the musical Man of La Mancha on the Collegiate Singers 2013 tour to Ghana. Composer Mike Merrill also commissioned me to conduct his works  Mass for the Last Days for choir and organ and the overture to his unfinished opera Jonah the Prophet, both of which were premiere performances.

 

      Along with music I love sports, particularly basketball, baseball, and hockey. I have coached baseball at the high school level and intramural basketball at BYU-Idaho.