Composer, keyboards/vocals improviser, and performance artist. Mahler Prize (Klagenfurt, Austria)for double concerto Acrobat Coming From Us, an American Composers Forum commission,on Cadence-Quixotic.Founded Chemical Composition, Arc Welding, and ArtStar.PhD,composition,Princeton,2003.

Recent-"A Hawk from a Handsaw", comedic installation, Canada Gallery-Performance piece at The Last Brucennial-2 music/art installations,Yale School of Art-Improvisation w/Sachiyo Ito and Dancers and w/Medicine Show Theater's "Don Juan in Hell"-Solo roles,"St. Agatha" other films inc.UCBComedy YouTube channel.Frequently at ABC No Rio, free-improvisation venue-Her Beginning With Rabbit, underscored with improvisation, won the Bad "Not bad meaning bad, but bad meaning good!" Theater Festival's award for best movement and music.Signature improvisations use a piano and an electric keyboard tuned a 1/4tone apart.

Sounds Like: Sun Ra, John Cage

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My trio ArtStar (with Anthony Cerretani, bass and live-action painting) and Michael Kwong (guitar and live-action painting) will open the ExperiMental Festival, produced by Pas Musique, at Spectrum, 121 Ludlow St, NYC, on Thursday, September 25 at 8PM. As always, we will invite the audience to draw to our improvisations; then we will improvise on the audience's new art work. A contact mike conveys the sounds of live-action painting into the music and out to the public.