Producing
Das Lied von
der Erde
Lead Producer.
Four concert run of Gustav Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Musical direction by Ethan Osman. The Village Verein Orchestra with featured soloists:Freddie Ballentine, tenor and Heather Petrie, alto..
More information here.
The Soldier's
Tale
Lead Producer, Co-Librettist, and Concept Development.
A four show run of Stravinksy's timely theatrical work. Created a new English transaltion. Opening performance of the Tank Theatre's annual Trash/Dark Fest. Featuring Curtis Howard as "the Soldier," Bereket Mengistu as "the Devil," and William Vosseler as "the Narrator." Musical direction and French translation by Ethan Osman. Additional theatrical consultancy by Carlo Altomare. Lighting design by Sarah Woods.
More information here.
The Rite
of Spring
Lead Producer.
Three show run of Stavinksy's epic ballet for two pianos four hands, featuring new choreography in collaboration with Fluid Creature Collective. Co-production with the Alchemical Studios. Musical direction by Ethan Osman.
More information here.
An Evening of
Music, Light, and Lecture:
Debussy and Ravel.
Lead Producer and Absinthe Specialist ;)
An experimental evening interspersed with immersive projections, lecture on harmonic structure, and spoken word. Featuring performances of Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Oh, and lest we forget, absinthe!
Musical directon by Ethan Osman. The Village Verein Orchestra with featured soloist: Karen Tay. Lighting and projection design by Sarah Woods
More information here.
Siegfried Idyll
Lead Producer.
Studio Recording of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Ethan Osman conducts the Vilage Verein Orchestra. Recording Engineer: Anna Solomon. The recording later aired on WNYU's "Classy and Sassy," a radio program hosted by interdisciplinary artist, DJ, and classical pianist SENAIDA .
Symphony in the Sukkah
Lead Producer.
A fun evening of musical excepts perfomed in NYU's OU-JLIC Sukkah for a festive Sukkot celebration. Musicans played Beethoven and Stravinsky excerpts, alongside solo repetoire.
Produceren
Das Lied von
der Erde
Hoofdproducent.
Vier concerten van Gustav Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde. Muzikale leiding door Ethan Osman. Het Village Verein Orkest met gastsolisten:Freddie Ballentine, tenor en Heather Petrie, alto..
Meer informatie hier
The Soldier's
Tale
Hoofdproducent, medelibrettist en conceptontwikkeling.
Een reeks van vier voorstellingen van Stravinsky’s toneelstuk. Voor deze productie heb ik een speciale nieuwe Engelse vertaling gemaakt. De openingsvoorstelling van het jaarlijkse Trash/Dark Fest van het Tank Theatre. Met Curtis Howard als "the Soldier," Bereket Mengistu als "the Devil," and William Vosseler als de "the Narrator." Muzikale leiding en Franse vertaling door Ethan Osman. Aanvullend theateradvies door Carlo Altomare. Lichtontwerp door Sarah Woods.
Meer informatie hier.
The Rite
of Spring
Hoofdproducent.
Drie voorstellingen van Stravinsky’s epische ballet voor twee piano’s vierhandig, met een nieuwe choreografie in samenwerking met Fluid Creature Collective. Coproductie met Alchemical Studios. Muzikale leiding: Ethan Osman.
Meer informatie hier.
An Evening of
Music, Light, and Lecture:
Debussy and Ravel.
Hoofdproducent en absintspecialist ;)
Een experimentele avond met meeslepende projecties, een lezing over harmonische structuren en spoken word. Met uitvoeringen van Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun en Ravel's Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet Oh, en niet te vergeten: absint!
Muzikale leiding door Ethan Osman. Het Village Verein Orchestra met als solist: Karen Tay. Licht- en projectieontwerp door Sarah Woods
Meer informatie hier.
Siegfried Idyll
Hoofdproducent.
Studio-opname van Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Ethan Osman conducts the Vilage Verein Orchestra. Recording Engineer: Anna Solomon. Ethan Osman dirigeert het Vilage Verein Orchestra. Geluidstechnicus: Anna Solomon. De opname werd later uitgezonden in het radioprogramma “Classy and Sassy” van WNYU, gepresenteerd door een interdisciplinaire kunstenaar, dj en klassiek pianist SENAIDA .
Symphony in the Sukkah
Hoofdproducent.
Een gezellige avond met muziekfragmenten, uitgevoerd in de OU-JLIC-soeka van de NYU ter gelegenheid van een feestelijke Soekot-viering. De musici speelden fragmenten van Beethoven en Stravinsky, naast solostukken.
Writing
Fortune Torn
From Heaven
Librettist.
Choral work in collaboration with Composer David Huang Mailman.
Recorded and premiered 27 June 2025 at the Choral Art Initiative's PREMIERE|Project Festival. Full score availible online.
Libretto adapted from my 2025 poem:
bingmayong
fortune tore from heaven
when a star fell on the yellow river's bank.
the cleft cosmos claiming,
shǐhuángdì sǐ ér dì fēn.
how the first qin laughed.
so foolish this portension.
did the heavens not know
the emperor would live forever?
his deliverance in the form of
seven hundred thousand pairs of hands.
in kneeling archers and buried slaves
soldiering towards earthen eternity.
august son resting immortal
upon a mercurial river’s bank.
More information here.
From Seed
To Bud
Librettist.
Art song collaboration with Composer David Huang Mailman.
Recorded and premiered 28 November 2023 at Vanderbilt University Blair School's "Living Sounds" concert. Featuring Syd Braustein, soprano and pianist Emma Chang. Full score accesible here.
Libretto adapted from my 2021 poem:
from seed to bud
i find that
time passes
faster than
photons firing
synapses firing
a blood bent heartbeat rushing to my head
so
quick love,
hold me in your arms
hold you in my mind
and together cultivate
from seed to bud
from branch to flower blooming
a soon fruit love
such fickle foolish futile fruit -- are we not born to rot?
you see it in the way bark withers
bones fail
each passing year, a ring upon the last
until the spoiled yield litters
the sepulcher earth
for
why love,
do we let our gardens grow in
unfettered optimism
sustained with
unbound warmth and
endless sunshine
not optimism but --
life
life love.
a
light love,
like the clementine rots
and orange blossom wilts
a blessing of memory.
More information here.
The Soldier's
Tale
Co-Librettist.
English translation and adaptatio nin collaboration with Ethan Osman.
Premiered Summer 2023 at the Alchemical Theatre.
Libretto adapted from Stravinky's Original 1918 text.
Seventeen
Author.
An early poem of mine that found some level of success. Writeen in 17-1 style, has yet to be set to music. American Voices Poetry Award Nominee and Scholastic Gold Key Award Winning. Charmingly juvenile.
seventeen
on the day that i was born, seventeen years ago, one door opened while another one closed.
no second born son, but a daughter born true. new to the family, new to you.
jubilant and joyous for a newborn heart, yet time would make yours fail to start
scheduled appointment to fix that organ, so you could watch mine begin to beat.
under anesthesia, you closed your eyes. breathing real air for the last time.
a heavy iron lung, due to a deadly mistake circled in red.
catholic last rites to help you pass, peace was finally found
(now seventeen years later I write with your pen.
an early present from a long past man,
helps gracefully ink my pages and thoughts)
baby in black at your funeral
crying with a valentine's rose.
from ashes to ashes,
i am here
you are
not.
Public
Trans-
migration
Author.
Text for something upcoming...
public transmigration
a paper crane sits alone on the M55,
miniature upon the seat.
folded out of a receipt, he carries the memory
of his father who made him and set him on his journey.
and I wonder if he got there.
people sleep on the uptown E,
faceless figures laying flat upon the benches.
I watch a stranger pat another stranger’s resting head,
like a mother wishes her daughter goodnight,
and I hope she is dreaming sweetly.
my lover skates on west third and bleecker,
dancing across the concrete he stops to hold me.
a sailor kissing his lover farewell,
before charting an asphalt sea,
and I muse if he remembers.
Schrijven
Fortune Torn
From Heaven
Librettist.
Koorwerk in samenwerking met de componist David Huang Mailman.
Opgenomen en in première gebracht op 27 juni 2025 tijdens het PREMIERE|Project Festival van het Choral Art Initiative. De volledige partituur is online beschikbaar.
Libretto naar mijn gedicht uit 2025:
bingmayong
fortune tore from heaven
when a star fell on the yellow river's bank.
the cleft cosmos claiming,
shǐhuángdì sǐ ér dì fēn.
how the first qin laughed.
so foolish this portension.
did the heavens not know
the emperor would live forever?
his deliverance in the form of
seven hundred thousand pairs of hands.
in kneeling archers and buried slaves
soldiering towards earthen eternity.
august son resting immortal
upon a mercurial river’s bank.
Meer informatie hier.
From Seed
To Bud
Librettist.
Samenwerking op het gebied van kunstliederen met componist David Huang Mailman.
Opgenomen en voor het eerst uitgevoerd op 28 november 2023 tijdens het “Living Sounds”-concert van de Blair School van de Vanderbilt University. Met Syd Braustein, soprano en pianiste Emma Chang. De volledige partituur is online beschikbaar.
Libretto naar mijn gedicht uit 2021:
from seed to bud
i find that
time passes
faster than
photons firing
synapses firing
a blood bent heartbeat rushing to my head
so
quick love,
hold me in your arms
hold you in my mind
and together cultivate
from seed to bud
from branch to flower blooming
a soon fruit love
such fickle foolish futile fruit -- are we not born to rot?
you see it in the way bark withers
bones fail
each passing year, a ring upon the last
until the spoiled yield litters
the sepulcher earth
for
why love,
do we let our gardens grow in
unfettered optimism
sustained with
unbound warmth and
endless sunshine
not optimism but --
life
life love.
a
light love,
like the clementine rots
and orange blossom wilts
a blessing of memory.
Meer informatie hier.
The Soldier's
Tale
Mede-librettist.
Engelse vertaling en bewerking in samenwerking met Ethan Osman.
Ging in de zomer van 2023 in première in het Alchemical Theatre.
Libretto gebaseerd op Stravinsky’s originele tekst uit 1918.
Seventeen
Auteur.
Een vroeg gedicht van mij dat redelijk succesvol was. Geschreven in de stijl van 17-1, maar er is nog geen muziek bij gecomponeerd. Genomineerd voor de American Voices Poetry Award en winnaar van de Scholastic Gold Key Award. Aangenaam jeugdig.
seventeen
on the day that i was born, seventeen years ago, one door opened while another one closed.
no second born son, but a daughter born true. new to the family, new to you.
jubilant and joyous for a newborn heart, yet time would make yours fail to start
scheduled appointment to fix that organ, so you could watch mine begin to beat.
under anesthesia, you closed your eyes. breathing real air for the last time.
a heavy iron lung, due to a deadly mistake circled in red.
catholic last rites to help you pass, peace was finally found
(now seventeen years later I write with your pen.
an early present from a long past man,
helps gracefully ink my pages and thoughts)
baby in black at your funeral
crying with a valentine's rose.
from ashes to ashes,
i am here
you are
not.
Public
Trans-
migration
Auteur
Tekst voor een aankomend project...
public transmigration
a paper crane sits alone on the M55,
miniature upon the seat.
folded out of a receipt, he carries the memory
of his father who made him and set him on his journey.
and I wonder if he got there.
people sleep on the uptown E,
faceless figures laying flat upon the benches.
I watch a stranger pat another stranger’s resting head,
like a mother wishes her daughter goodnight,
and I hope she is dreaming sweetly.
my lover skates on west third and bleecker,
dancing across the concrete he stops to hold me.
a sailor kissing his lover farewell,
before charting an asphalt sea,
and I muse if he remembers.
Academic
Brain Storm
Lead Performer, research, videography, and concept development.
In collaboration with Stan Pol, we sought out to research the student experience in an age of disordered attention artistically. This project cumulated in an endurance performance and audio-visual installation created and performed by Stan and I.
More information here.
Dutch Design Week: Care and Repair
Concept Development.
Developed the concept for Care and Repair's first public preentation at Dutch Design Week, a Washing-machine-ified fermi problem where instead of guessing jelly beans in a jar, participants would guess what is the right dosage of detergent for a washing machine.
Zine:
What Does National Identity Sound Like
Concept Development and Zine Editor.
Wetenschap-
pelijke projecten
Brain Storm
Hoofdrolspeler, onderzoek, videoproductie en conceptontwikkeling.
Samen met Stan Pol, wilden we de ervaringen van studenten in een tijdperk van versnipperde aandacht op artistieke wijze vastleggen. Dit project mondde uit in een door Stan en mij gecreëerde en uitgevoerde doorzettingsperformance en audiovisuele installatie.
Meer informatie hier.
Dutch Design Week: Care and Repair
Conceptontwikkeling
Ontwikkelde het concept voor de eerste publieke presentatie van Care and Repair tijdens de Dutch Design Week: een ‘wasmachine-versie’ van het Fermi-probleem, waarbij deelnemers niet moesten raden hoeveel jellybeans er in een pot zaten, maar wel wat de juiste hoeveelheid wasmiddel voor een wasmachine was.
Zine:
What Does National Identity Sound Like
Conceptontwikkeling en redacteur van het zine.