Curriculum Vitae

Percussionist and Drummer · Artist and Composer · Producer and Recording Engineer

Lawson White · 309 Parkview Drive, Columbia, TN 38401 · 347.581.9315 · lawson@lawsonwhite.com · updated October 2026

Jump to: Education · Teaching · Ensembles · Orchestral · Performances · Collaborators · Creative work · Discography · Production and engineering · Composition and film · Masterclasses · Instruments and technology

Education

Yale School of Music — Master of Music, Percussion Performance, 2003

Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester — Bachelor of Music, Percussion Performance and Literature, 1999 · Performer's Certificate, 1999

Blair School of Music, Vanderbilt University — College Preparatory Certificate in Music, 1995

Principal teachers: Robert van Sice (Yale), John Beck (Eastman), Keith Aleo (Interlochen), Bill Wiggins (Blair School of Music pre-college program), Christopher Norton (Eastern Music Festival), and Sam Bacco (apprenticeship)

Additional study: Doug Howard and Tom Stubbs (Aspen Music Festival); Cloyd Duff (Cloyd Duff Timpani Masterclass); private lessons with Richard Weiner (Cleveland Orchestra), Tom Freer (Cleveland Orchestra), and Duncan Patton (Metropolitan Opera); drum set with Steve Gadd and Rich Thompson; improvisation with Ralph Alessi, Michael Cain; vibraphone with Jerry Tachoir; hand drums and session playing with Tom Roady.

Production and engineering: apprenticeship with Charles Harbutt (staff engineer, Sony Classical) and Grace Row (staff producer, Sony Classical)

Academic Appointments and Teaching

Belmont University, School of Music — Adjunct Instructor of Percussion, 2026–present

  • Applied classical percussion: a studio of seventeen students across the commercial music, audio engineering technology, music business, and composition programs — weekly lessons, juries, and a classical percussion technique program with an individualized practice-routine assignment

  • Applied drum set: weekly lessons for the studio's commercial drum set students, taught from an original syllabus and fourteen weekly lesson plans (2026) — six strands: hands and feet (Stone, Appice, Bailey, Fullen, Mayer, Montagner, pillow pad); Reed's Syncopation through a full permutation catalog documented in an original working guide; the Nevermind practicum (one Grohl song a week, learned by ear, recorded with and without the record, graded against it) with a hero-song curriculum (Grohl, Dun, Tré Cool, Fang, Barker, Chamberlin, Hawkins) and a semester transcription project on the North Texas calendar; the fill as composition and the two-part Chop of the Week; a four-week brush arc to the Berklee Level-3 pass-off; and a three-week electronics unit (programming, finger drumming, controllers, effects); a listening journal drawn from a seven-category drummers survey; mid-semester pass-offs and a jury

  • Instrumental Seminar: Classical Percussion (MSM 2051) — designed and teach the weekly seminar for commercial percussion majors in a masterclass and clinic format, drawn from a catalog of 32 original lectures

  • Belmont Faculty Percussion Quartet, with Christopher Norton, Todd London, and Christine Comer (Alejandro Viñao, Water, November 2026)

  • Authored the studio's complete document set: applied syllabus, Applied Percussion Lesson Policies, Classical Percussion Lesson Materials, Approach to Teaching and Being a Student, Recommended Listening, Reading, and Watching, Classical Percussion Technique Program and Practice Routine, Drum Set Studio Syllabus and Lesson Plans (fourteen weekly plans with a materials list, a Syncopation permutation index, a brushes protocol, an electronics unit, a drummers survey, and a transcription calendar), Teaching Progressive Steps to Syncopation (the working guide behind the permutation index) with its student handouts (Reading Reed in Triplets), and the Steve Reich at 90 seminar package (teaching notes, slides, timing card, and student guide)

The Parlor, Music Row, Nashville — Partner and Studio Manager, 2022–present

  • Founded and run the studio's for-credit internship and training program; interns from Belmont University, Yale University, Brown University, Middle Tennessee State University, and Florida State University

Yale University — Graduate Teaching Fellow, 2001–2003

  • Practical Applications in Music; Multimedia Art and Technology I and II

Sō Percussion — Performer and Educator, 2003–2007

  • Masterclasses at The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Princeton University, Peabody Conservatory, Northwestern University, and others

Professional Ensembles

Sō Percussion — Member, 2003–2007 · Brooklyn, NY

GRAMMY-winning percussion quartet founded at the Yale School of Music in 1999; the ensemble now serves as Edward T. Cone Performers-in-Residence at Princeton University and co-directs the percussion department at the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

  • Performed at Carnegie Hall's Zankel Hall (the 2005 world premiere of Carlos Carrillo's concerto with the American Composers Orchestra), Lincoln Center, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Miller Theatre, the Walker Art Center, and major venues across the United States and abroad

  • Collaborators during tenure include Steve Reich, David Lang, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Lansky, Bang on a Can, Dirty Projectors, Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld, Jack Vees, and Rinde Eckert

  • Led music-software programming and technology for the ensemble's recordings and live performances

  • Continued collaboration after leaving the ensemble as composer and sound designer — Music for Trains (2008), Imaginary City (2009), Undivided Divided (2011), Where (we) Live (2012) — and as producer of Paul Lansky: Threads (Cantaloupe, 2011)

Alarm Will Sound — Founding member and percussionist, 1999–2006

GRAMMY-winning contemporary chamber ensemble of twenty musicians, formed at the Eastman School of Music out of the Ossia ensemble; called "one of the most vital and original ensembles on the American music scene" by The New York Times.

  • Recordings: Steve Reich: Tehillim / The Desert Music (Cantaloupe, 2002); Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin (Cantaloupe, 2005; also producer); Reich at the Roxy (Sweetspot, 2006)

  • Performed the Aphex Twin program at Lincoln Center and Reich at the Roxy

  • Programmed and sequenced the live electronics for Benedict Mason's Animals and the Origins of the Dance, migrating the work from hardware sequencers and Yamaha DX7s to a modern DAW and soft synths

Ossia — Eastman School of Music new-music ensemble; performed with Steve Reich in Kilbourn Hall and recorded Tehillim / The Desert Music with him (2002)

Orchestral Performance

  • Nashville Symphony — section percussion (regular substitute and extra), present; the orchestra's Carnegie Hall debut, September 25, 2000 (Kenneth Schermerhorn)

  • Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra — section percussion, 1997–1999

  • Alabama Symphony Orchestra — section percussion, 1999–2001

  • Peninsula Music Festival Orchestra — section percussion

  • American Composers Orchestra — concerto soloist at Carnegie Hall with Sō Percussion: world premiere of Carlos Carrillo's Algunas metáforas que aluden al tormento, a la angustia y a la Guerra, Zankel Hall, January 21, 2005

  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company / Lincoln Center Festival — percussionist in the 112-musician orchestra for John Cage and Merce Cunningham's Ocean, Rose Theater, July 2005

Selected Performances and Premieres

  • Concerto at Carnegie Hall — Carlos Carrillo, Algunas metáforas que aluden al tormento, a la angustia y a la Guerra, for percussion quartet and orchestra: world premiere with the American Composers Orchestra, Zankel Hall, January 21, 2005 (Sō Percussion)

  • Steve Reich, Tokyo/Vermont Counterpoint (solo marimba) — Eliot Feld, A Stair Dance, world premiere, Ballet Tech / MANDANCE Project, The Joyce Theater, New York, October 21, 2004; the ballet entered New York City Ballet's repertory in 2006

  • John Cage, Third Construction — Eliot Feld, Ugha Bugha, world premiere, New York City Ballet, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, April 29, 2006 (with Sō Percussion)

  • John Cage / Merce Cunningham, Ocean — Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Lincoln Center Festival, Rose Theater, July 12–16, 2005

  • Jack Vees and Paul Schick, Feynman (chamber opera for baritone and percussion quartet) — world premiere, Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, June 2005; New York production, The Knitting Factory (Real Time Opera)

  • Princeton Laptop Orchestra with Zakir Hussain and Pauline Oliveros — with Sō Percussion; Richardson Auditorium, Princeton University, April 4, 2006 (Dan Trueman and Perry Cook, directors)

  • Steve Reich, Four Organs — with Dirty Projectors, 2007

  • Steve Reich Composer Portrait — Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2007 (Sō Percussion)

  • Steve Reich, Drumming and David Lang, the so-called laws of nature — Sō Percussion touring repertoire, 2003–2007

  • International Percussion Competition Luxembourg — Second Prize and Concerto Prize, Sō Percussion, January 2005

  • Alarm Will Sound — the Aphex Twin program at Lincoln Center; Reich at the Roxy, New York, 2006

  • Shugo Tokumaru — U.S. tour opening for The Magnetic Fields, 2008; drum set, in a band with Bryan Devendorf (The National, LNZNDRF), percussion; Jon Natchez (Beirut, The War on Drugs), toy piano and multi-instruments; and Perrin Cloutier (Beirut), accordion and multi-instruments

  • Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble, Child of Tree — featured soloist: John Cage, Child of Tree; Andy Akiho, LIgNEouS 5 for marimba and string quartet; with works by inti figgis-vizueta, Viet Cuong, and Stravinsky; Kelly Corcoran, conductor; Green Door Gourmet, Nashville, October 23, 2026 (program)

  • Intersection Contemporary Music Ensemble and New Dialect, Transfiguration (the ensemble's debut concert) — Pärt, Shepherd, Harvey, Gubaidulina, and Rorem; The Platform, Nashville, March 26, 2015 (program)

Venues include Carnegie Hall and Zankel Hall, Lincoln Center (Rose Theater, New York State Theater), Brooklyn Academy of Music, Park Avenue Armory, The Joyce Theater, Miller Theatre, Walker Art Center, and The Knitting Factory.

Collaborators

  • Composers: Steve Reich, David Lang, Pauline Oliveros, Paul Lansky, Zakir Hussain, Bryce Dessner, John Zorn, Zeena Parkins, Kim Gordon, Steven Mackey, Dan Trueman, Missy Mazzoli, Ted Hearne, Judd Greenstein, Caleb Burhans, Jason Treuting, Martin Bresnick, Angélica Negrón, Evan Ziporyn, Dennis DeSantis, Pascal Le Boeuf, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Huang Ruo, Carlos Carrillo, Jack Vees, Benedict Mason, Alejandro Viñao, Andy Akiho

  • Choreographers and directors: Merce Cunningham, Eliot Feld, Shen Wei, Rinde Eckert, Ain Gordon, Banning Bouldin (New Dialect), Jonathan Parker

  • Ensembles: Sō Percussion, Alarm Will Sound, Kronos Quartet, Bang on a Can, International Contemporary Ensemble, yMusic, ACME, NOW Ensemble, Victoire, Sandbox Percussion, Dirty Projectors, Balún, Princeton Laptop Orchestra, Akropolis Reed Quintet, Harlem Quartet, Nashville Symphony, The Metropolitan Opera (archival restoration)

  • Recording artists: Twenty One Pilots, Turnstile, Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron, Shakira, Shania Twain, Béla Fleck, Billy Strings, Brittany Howard, Lake Street Dive, Rag'n'Bone Man, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Alison Krauss, Vince Gill, Molly Tuttle, Chris Thile, Ben Folds, Tony Trischka, My Brightest Diamond, Santigold, Chromeo, Blues Traveler, Lorrie Morgan, The Band Perry, Connie Smith

Interdisciplinary and Recent Creative Work

  • Shen Wei Dance Arts, Undivided Divided (2011) — co-composer and sound designer; world premiere, Park Avenue Armory (Wade Thompson Drill Hall), with an 8.4-channel surround score; later presented at the American Dance Festival, The Kennedy Center, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

  • Sō Percussion, Where (we) Live (BAM Next Wave Festival, 2012) — sound designer; directed by Ain Gordon

  • Sō Percussion, Imaginary City (BAM Next Wave Festival, 2009) — composer and sound designer; directed by Rinde Eckert

  • The Living Array (2026) — composer and performer; solo performance opening Shimmer: Dreaming the Posthuman, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, September 25, 2026. A four-part work for voice, pedal steel, Mellotron, Minimoog, ROLI Seaboard, human-touch circuits, telephones, and percussion, conceived as "a sound system built entirely of people"; an ensemble version with dispersed percussionists is planned (program note)

  • Sō Percussion, Music for Trains (Vermont Performance Lab, 2008) — sound designer

  • In Her Voice — two-hour interdisciplinary performance work developed in response to the Frist Art Museum's 2026 exhibition In Her Place: Nashville Artists in the Twenty-First Century (project proposal)

  • Sonic Surrealism — interdisciplinary performance work developed in response to the Frist Art Museum's 2026 exhibition International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams (preliminary concept)

  • With flutist Molly Barth — a spatialized Dolby Atmos program built around Steve Reich's Vermont Counterpoint; an ARP 2600 / Éliane Radigue program; a flute–percussion duo program with a new work (in development)

  • Live solo improvisation — voice, pedal steel, analog synthesizers, and electronics, composed in real time: solo show, Ambient Sundays, Nashville, March 8, 2026; live improvisation to a dance film, April 10, 2026

  • Sound practice — Certified Auster Sound Method practitioner; sound baths, guided meditation, and deep listening-based performance

Discography as Performer

With Sō Percussion and Alarm Will Sound

  • Sō Percussion and Matmos — Treasure State (Cantaloupe Music, 2010) — drum kit, amplified cactus, ceramics, beer cans; producer, engineer, mixing

  • Sō Percussion — amid the noise (Cantaloupe Music, 2006) — vibraphone, glockenspiel, tuned pipes, Fender Rhodes, toy piano, melodica, kalimba, bowed marimba, harmonica, drums, electronics; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Alarm Will Sound — Reich at the Roxy (Sweetspot, 2006) — marimba, vibraphone

  • Alarm Will Sound — Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin (Cantaloupe Music, 2005) — drum set, percussion; producer, mixing, editing

  • Sō Percussion — Steve Reich: Drumming (Cantaloupe Music, 2005) — percussion; producer, editing

  • Ossia and Alarm Will Sound — Steve Reich: Tehillim / The Desert Music (Cantaloupe Music, 2002) — percussion

With the Nashville Symphony

  • Nashville Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero — Brass Concertos (Naxos American Classics, 2025): Chick Corea, Trombone Concerto, with Joseph Alessi — section percussion

  • Nashville Symphony, Kenneth Schermerhorn — Ives: Symphony No. 2; Robert Browning Overture (Naxos, 2000) — section percussion

Additional recordings

  • Ruby Rae — True Crime (Voodoo Queen Music, 2022) — drums, percussion, pedal steel, guitars, bass, keyboards, backing vocals; producer, engineer, mixing

  • Jenner Fox — Planet I'm From (The Thumb Records, 2021) — percussion, pedal steel, vocals

  • JKLoL — JKLoL (2021) — drums, percussion, background vocals; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Tony Trischka — Shall We Hope (2020) — vocal harmony; sound design, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Balún — Prisma Tropical (Good Child Music, 2018) — marimba and horn arrangements; producer

  • Mary-Elaine Jenkins — Hold Still (Good Child Music, 2018) — drums, accordion

  • Kate Moore and Ashley Bathgate — Stories for Ocean Shells (Cantaloupe Music, 2016) — pedal steel, vibraphone; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Sarah Kirkland Snider — Unremembered (New Amsterdam Records, 2015) — percussion and melodica with The Unremembered Orchestra; co-producer, sound design, engineer

  • Federation of the Disco Pimp — Inamorata (Dusty Reel Records, 2014) — percussion

  • Russell Howard — Cityheart (Tired Skyline Music / Good Child Music, 2013) — drums; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Seth Cluett — Objects of Memory (Line, 2011) — bass drum, bowed vibraphone, amplified paper, and compressed air, with Sō Percussion, on "A Radiance Scored With Shadow"

  • William Brittelle — Television Landscape (New Amsterdam Records, 2010) — synthesizer; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • David Lang — Music from the Film (Untitled) (Cantaloupe Music, 2009) — guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming, additional music; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Amanda Blank — I Love You (Downtown, 2009) — percussion and orchestral arrangement on "Leaving You Behind" (feat. Lykke Li)

  • Magic Wands — Magic Love & Dreams EP (Bright Antenna, 2009) — percussion

  • Kira Fontana — The Inner Revolution (Spark the Fire Records, 2007) — drums; co-producer, engineer, mixing

  • Nell Bryden — From Midnight On EP (157 Records, 2005) — snare drum, tambourine, glockenspiel; string arrangements

  • Neos — Mackeral Sky (2005) — percussion

Production and Engineering

Awards

  • GRAMMY Award, 2025 — Best Instrumental Composition: "Strands" by Pascal Le Boeuf, from the album Are We Dreaming the Same Dream? (Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf, and Christian Euman) — recording engineer

  • GRAMMY nomination, 2025 — Best Bluegrass Album: Tony Trischka, EarlJam — co-producer

  • GRAMMY nomination, 2025 — Best Contemporary Instrumental Album: Béla Fleck, Rhapsody in Blue — mix engineer

Selected credits

  • Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx — We're New Here (XL Recordings / Young Turks, 2011) — engineer, vocal mixing

  • Gil Scott-Heron — I'm New Here (XL Recordings, 2010) — engineer, mixing, string arrangements

  • Turnstile — Glow On (Roadrunner, 2021) — engineer

  • Chromeo — Business Casual (Atlantic / Big Beat, 2010) — engineer

  • Shakira — She Wolf (Epic, 2009) — string arrangements ("She Wolf," "Spy")

  • Kronos Quartet — Aheym: Kronos Quartet Plays Music by Bryce Dessner (Anti-, 2013) — recording engineer

  • Tony Trischka — EarlJam (Down the Road Records, 2024) — co-producer, engineer, mixer; GRAMMY nominee, Best Bluegrass Album (2025)

  • Tony Trischka — EarlJam 2 (Down the Road Records, 2026) — co-producer, engineer, mixer

  • Lake Street Dive — Obviously (Nonesuch, 2021) — engineer

  • Béla Fleck — Rhapsody in Blue (Thirty Tigers, 2024) — mix engineer; GRAMMY nominee, Best Contemporary Instrumental Album (2025)

  • Twenty One Pilots — Scaled and Icy (Fueled by Ramen, 2021) — engineer ("Good Day," "Shy Away," "Mulberry Street")

  • Rag'n'Bone Man — Life by Misadventure (Columbia, 2021) — engineer

  • Sandbox Percussion — And That One Too (Coviello Classics, 2020) — producer, engineer, editing

  • David Lang — Anatomy Theater (Cantaloupe Music, 2019) — engineer, mixing, mastering, editing

  • David Lang, Augustin Hadelich — Mystery Sonatas (Cantaloupe Music, 2018) — producer, engineer

  • David Lang — Writing on Water (Cantaloupe Music, 2018) — mixing

  • David Lang and Mac Wellman, Harlem Quartet — The Difficulty of Crossing a Field (Cantaloupe Music, 2015) — producer, engineer, mixing, editing

  • David Lang — Music from the Film (Untitled) (Cantaloupe Music, 2009) — producer, engineer, mixing, mastering; guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming; additional music

  • Ben Folds — So There (New West, 2015) — recording engineer

  • Blues Traveler — Hurry Up & Hang Around (BMG, 2018) — engineer

  • Sarah Kirkland Snider — Unremembered (New Amsterdam Records, 2015) — co-producer, sound designer, engineer; named among The Washington Post's top classical recordings of 2015 and WNYC New Sounds' year-end Top 10

  • Sarah Kirkland Snider — Penelope (New Amsterdam Records, 2010) — producer, engineer, mixing

  • My Brightest Diamond — This Is My Hand (Asthmatic Kitty, 2014) — engineer, vocal editing

  • Missy Mazzoli — Vespers for a New Dark Age (New Amsterdam Records, 2015) — producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Missy Mazzoli — Song from the Uproar (New Amsterdam Records, 2012) — producer, mixing, mastering

  • Victoire — Cathedral City (New Amsterdam Records, 2010) — engineer, mixing, mastering

  • David T. Little — Soldier Songs (Innova, 2013) — producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Zeena Parkins — Three Harps, Tuning Forks & Electronics (Good Child Music, 2017) and Captiva (Good Child Music, 2018) — producer, recording, mixing

  • John Zorn — Myth and Mythopoeia (Tzadik, 2014) — recording

  • Sō Percussion — amid the noise (Cantaloupe Music, 2006) — producer, engineer, mixing, editing, programming, mastering

  • Sō Percussion — Steve Reich: Drumming (Cantaloupe Music, 2005) — producer, editing

  • Sō Percussion — Sō Percussion (Cantaloupe Music, 2004) — producer, editing

  • Sō Percussion — Paul Lansky: Threads (Cantaloupe Music, 2010) — producer, mixing, editing

  • Sō Percussion — Where (we) Live (Cantaloupe Music, 2012) — producer, recording, mixing, mastering

  • Sō Percussion — Steven Mackey: It Is Time (Cantaloupe Music, 2011) — producer, recording, mixing, mastering, 5.1 surround mix

  • Sō Percussion and Matmos — Treasure State (Cantaloupe Music, 2010) — producer, mixing

  • Sō Percussion and Dan Trueman — Five (And-a-Half) Gardens DVD (Cantaloupe Music, 2007) — producer, engineer, mixing, editing

  • Ted Hearne — Katrina Ballads (New Amsterdam Records, 2010) — producer

  • Huang Ruo, International Contemporary Ensemble — Chamber Concerto Cycle (Naxos, 2007) — producer, mixing, editing

  • Lorrie Morgan — Dead Girl Walking (Goldenlane Records, 2024) — co-producer, recording, mixing, mastering

  • Kristin Andreassen — Gondolier (2015) — producer; The Bright Siders — A Mind of Your Own (Smithsonian Folkways, 2021) — engineer

  • Erin Bode and Lawson White — How Long (Songs for Waiting) EP — arrangements; producer, engineer, mixing, mastering

  • Sony Music Studios / The Metropolitan Opera (2007–2009) — audio engineer for the digitization, restoration, and mastering of the Met's Texaco broadcast archive, 1940–2004

  • Mike Elizondo (2020) — full-time engineer and studio manager: Twenty One Pilots, Shania Twain, Lin-Manuel Miranda, For King & Country, The Band Perry, and Live from Here — tracking and engineering the show's remote and studio-hybrid broadcasts under Elizondo's musical direction after the spring 2020 lockdowns forced it off the theater stage

  • Television and film: Disney, ABC, AMC, HBO, Goldcrest Films

Positions

  • The Parlor, Music Row, Nashville — Partner, Studio Manager, and in-house engineer, 2022–present: calendar, budget, staff training, equipment curation and maintenance; founded the for-credit internship program

  • Good Child Music — Founder and President, 2008–present: record label and music publishing company, distributed by The Orchard; releases featured by The New York Times (65 Best Songs of the Year), NPR Tiny Desk Concerts and World Cafe, KCRW, and SXSW

  • Good Child Music Studios — Owner, 2007–present (New York, Brooklyn, Nashville)

  • Lawson White Productions — Producer, engineer, mixer, 2004–present

  • Live sound design and mixing — Brooklyn Academy of Music, Park Avenue Armory, The Beacon Theatre, The Kennedy Center; sound designer for Sō Percussion and Alarm Will Sound

Composition, Film Scoring, and Sound Design

  • The Living Array (2026) — composer; Frist Art Museum, Nashville

  • Dramatic Escape (2015) — composer, original score; feature documentary directed by Nick Quested (Saboteur Media / Goldcrest Films); broadcast on PBS/THIRTEEN, 2017

  • (Untitled) (2009) — additional music; score realization and soundtrack production with David Lang; engineer, mixer, and mastering engineer; performer (guitar, keyboards, percussion, programming); on-screen role "Seth"; feature film directed by Jonathan Parker (Samuel Goldwyn Films), soundtrack on Cantaloupe Music

  • The Woodmans (2010) — original score producer and recordist; soundtrack editing and production with David Lang; documentary directed by C. Scott Willis (Kino Lorber / PBS Independent Lens); Best New York Documentary, Tribeca Film Festival 2010

  • Hell on Wheels (AMC, 2015) — original music, Season 5, Episode 5, "Elixir of Life"

  • Basic Witch (JASH, 2016) — composer; web series directed by Annie Tippe

  • U.S. Department of Energy, "Phone Charger" — composer; national television commercial

  • Undivided Divided (2011) — co-composer and sound designer; Shen Wei Dance Arts, Park Avenue Armory

  • Imaginary City (2009) — composer and sound designer; Sō Percussion, BAM Next Wave Festival

  • Arrangements for marimba, written for the Belmont applied studio — Aphex Twin, "Avril 14th"; Bach, "Air on the G String"; Pachelbel, Canon in D; Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1; Douglas/Barenberg, "The Hymn of Ordinary Motion"; hymns

  • Compositions, arrangements, programming, and co-writing on records by many of the artists listed under Collaborators

Masterclasses, Lectures, and Clinics

Masterclasses, Clinics & Lectures: A Working Catalog (2026) — 32 original masterclasses for university seminars, residencies, and conference presentation, organized in five categories with combined teaching units, a seminar repertoire list, and an audience programming guide. The titles, by category:

  • Musicianship & Preparation: How to Prepare a Piece of Music With Predictably Successful Results · Practice Strategies — How to Practice So the Hours Count · The Bulletproof Performer · Singing — The Secret Weapon to Unlock Great Performances · How to Memorize a Piece of Music · Phrasing — How to Bring Beauty, Expression, and Lyricism to Percussion · Polyrhythms and Metric Modulation · The Theater of Performance · Cueing in a Conductorless Chamber Music Ensemble · How to Build Your Setup to Play a Multiple Percussion Solo · Drum Set ↔︎ Percussion

  • Repertoire & Listening: Rhythmic Techniques from the 20th- and 21st-Century Repertoire · The Percussion Music of Steve Reich · The Percussion Music of John Cage · The Percussion Music of Iannis Xenakis · Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Music Survey · Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Percussion Survey

  • The Instruments: Snare Drum · Marimba · Vibraphone · Timpani · Orchestral Percussion (crash cymbals, suspended cymbal, bass drum, tambourine, triangle, xylophone) · Hand Drums, Accessories, and World Percussion · How to Tune Drums (with Sam Bacco, guest lecturer)

  • Orchestral Craft, College & Careers: How to Play in an Orchestra · Orchestral Audition Preparation · Broadway — How to Prepare For, Sub On, and Play a Broadway Show · How to Spend Your Time at College

  • Technology & the Studio: Drum Programming, Finger Drumming, Controllers, Effects & Electronics · The Percussionist in the Studio · Recording Sessions — from Film Score and Orchestral Sessions to Nashville Songs and the Number System · Designing a Portfolio Career

Belmont University, Classical Percussion Seminar (2026) — lectures delivered include How to Spend Your Time at College; the six-part Preparation Lecture (How to Prepare a Piece of Music, Choosing Sounds, Practice Strategies, Hitting Your Deadline, The Bulletproof Performer); and Steve Reich at 90 (October 8, 2026) — minimalism and its four founders, the percussion music of Steve Reich, and the Bang on a Can generation after him, with a class performance of Clapping Music, a 25-slide deck, and a published student listening and reading guide

Sō Percussion masterclasses (2003–2007) — The Juilliard School, Yale School of Music, Princeton University, Peabody Conservatory, Northwestern University, and others

Teaching portfolio — syllabi, teaching philosophy, lecture slides, original teaching materials, and the full masterclass catalog — on the Teaching page.

Instruments, Technology, and Additional Training

References

Available on request.