rewardsprogram.info

co-host / musician

A regular evening of instrumental improvisation with Miles Lassi, Skyway Man & Zekarias Thompson + special guests. Featuring DJ Andy Cabic of Vetiver. Every 2nd Monday 9PM @ Little Hill Lounge and 4th Monday 8:30PM @ 4Star Theater.

Miriam Hitchcock / Opera Parallèle

composer

At Club Limelight, we honor artists who dare to see beyond the ordinary—visionaries who challenge, inspire, and shift perspectives. Andy Warhol’s photographs remind us of the power in the everyday, Miriam Hitchcock’s paintings and films bridge tradition and innovation, blending mediums and ideas to spark curiosity and wonder, and Ken Fulk transforms functional design into a realm of magic, proving that the objects we live with can be as evocative as the art we admire. In this spirit, re.riddle presents Tana Quincy Arcega, Summer Mei Ling Lee, and Kamran Samimi, whose works connect the human and natural worlds, illustrating how sustainability and memory create meaning. Together, these exhibitions celebrate care, resourcefulness, and the fragments—both tangible and intangible—that shape our understanding of one another, encapsulating the visionary ethos of San Francisco Art Week.

Snap Studios / KQED, lemonada

engineer / sound designer

Lupita Nyong’o knows what home feels like. But where exactly is it? In Mexico, where she was born? Kenya, where she grew up? Or the States, where she’s spent the past 20 years?

Like Lupita, millions of Africans are spread out across the globe following family, searching for love, building futures and creating stories. It’s these stories – wild and messy, intimate and joyous – that she wants to hear.

Welcome to Mind Your Own, a storytelling podcast navigating what it means to belong, all from the African perspective. Join Lupita as she shares tales of her own and dives into the lives of real people finding their way in new worlds of every kind.

Production by Snap Studios at KQED, ad sales and distribution by Lemonada Media.

Snap Studios / Wondery

engineer / sound designer

Amika Mota was a young mother, a midwife, and the daughter of a feminist icon. One night she caused a fatal crash that would separate her from her family and brand her as a criminal.  

Trapped inside prison, looking for any way out, she gets the call to join an all-female crew of incarcerated firefighters. When the alarm sounds, they drive out into the community on fire trucks as heroes – pulling bodies from crash scenes, saving lives and fighting fire. Every call brings her the chance to reclaim the world she lost.   

Hosted by Anna Sussman from Snap Studios at KQED. Snap Studios is home to the Snap Judgment and Spooked podcasts.

Snap Studios / KQED

audio engineer

Spooked®️ features true-life supernatural stories, told first-hand by people who can barely believe it happened themselves. Spooked ®️ challenges skeptics of the supernatural, daring listeners to confront the unknown. These stories demand listeners question their own map of reality. Be afraid.

Spooked is made in partnership with KQED and PRX. It is hosted by Glynn Washington.

Red Clay Sound Haus

engineer / sound designer

In Program Il: Sunday service Listening Session, Tossie Long and collaborators present an immersive sound experience inspired by the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church's history. people, and musical traditions.

The Sacred Sounds of San Francisco project focuses on developing new interpretations of gospel songs originally from the south. blending historical and contemporary influences and integrating elements of Afrofuturism.

Generational San Franciscan Tossie Long is a multi-hyphenate. multi-lingual. Grammy nominated international performing artist. producer. director. and facilitator.

Panto in the Presidio

drummer

Awaken your childlike wonder this holiday season with a brand new take on the family classic, Peter Pan. The adventure begins in San Francisco before soaring away to the magical world of Neverland, featuring familiar characters such as Peter, Wendy, Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, and the Lost Boys. Panto in the Presidio fans will recognize favorites including Pecker the singing rooster and the wonderfully wacky Dame who narrates the action.

Now in its fourth year, Panto in the Presidio has quickly become a San Francisco holiday staple. The annual production is a uniquely San Franciscan twist on the British tradition of holiday pantomimes (more commonly known as Pantos) which are over-the-top musical theater parodies of popular children’s stories and folklore. Join in the Panto traditions of booing the villains, cheering the heroes, and singing along to popular songs played by a live band. Oh, and watch out for flying candy!

Opera Parallèle

sound designer / engineer

Everest: Opera in the Planetarium is presented in the groundbreaking medium of a powerful opera transformed into a riveting graphic novel film projected across the arched dome of the planetarium. With a rich recording of a renowned opera cast and orchestra led by Maestro Nicole Paiement, the animations come to life through facial tracking technology which transform the impassioned singer's facial movements (during the time of recording) to animated graphics which follow the singer's voices. The result is an immersive operatic experience which is further enriched by the state of the art surround sound of the planetarium and comfortably reclined seats for a truly unique experience.

Àṣẹ Dance Theater

musician

Adia Tamar Whitaker’s Following The Road to Ose Tura is a dance and music response to The Road to Ose Tura, a dance film created by Ifa priestess, dancer, choreographer, and scholar, Efeya Ifadayo Olaberinjo Makala Sampson. Before Sampson transitioned into the ancestral realm, she charged Whitaker and other dance family members with setting the second part of her ancestral dance prayers and completing the dance film she began. Following The Road to Ose Tura is a four-chaptered, site-specific, ritual dance theater performance featuring Whitaker’s choreography, including film projections of Sampson’s work.Following the Road to Ose Tura is a series of four different ritual dance theater experiences in three different locations over four days. The first three days feature three different 30-minute-long performance rituals that repeat three times each day. The fourth day features the entire 90-min work as the evening length premiere finale.

Kambara+

composer

Official Selection
10,000 Dreams Festival - Kennedy Center, 2024

Official Selection
San Francisco Dance Film Festival, 2024

Out of the Dust, is dance film and sound experience co-created by Yayoi Kambara and Brian Staufenbiel. Audiences step into the former WWII Japanese American incarceration site at Manzanar National Historic Site narrated by ghosts/dancers, and the poetry of the late Poet Laureate of San Francisco Janice Mirikitani. Recordings of her speaking poetry, from her book Out of the Dust, is heard alongside Miles Lassi’s score that includes the music of Paul Chihara, Roy Hirabayashi and PJ Hirabayashi to honor her life as a child incarceree, artist, and activist. This film is critical because the recent passing of Mirikitani is a sobering reminder that we are losing those with wounds from Japanese American incarceration.

Crowded Fire Theater / Magic Theatre

sound designer

Shipping & Handling is a theatrical experience constructed as a night out at the theatre told in reverse. The playwright shuffles chronology in order to scramble our historical expectations around Black plays, and unmap our limited vision of a future AI world. Are creations always a reflection of their creator? Can an AI bear witness to divine prophecy? Shipping & Handling seeks to transmit a signal for locating the tone of what it means to be human in this specific moment, and collectively reimagine our future design.

A revolutionary world premiere from Crowded Fire & Campo Santo’s Playwright In Residence, Star Finch, Shipping & Handling explores how our humanity will be measured within the soon to be robotic-reality. As an audience member, you’ll start at a moment in time and move back; from an afterparty with actors, to a playwright’s experimental talkback, to the performance of the play you’ve been hearing all about, a surreal and beautiful future vision from a Black Feminine gaze.

Amy Seiwert's Imagery

sound designer

Imagery's latest dance film, coming to you in 2024. Featuring dancer James Gilmer with choreography by Amy Seiwert, a libretto by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and an original score by Daniel Bernard Roumain. Created in collaboration with film makers Ben Estabrook and Aaron Kierbel, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.

Audium / Red Clay Sound Haus

sound designer / composer

Red Clay Sound Haus is embarking on a multi-year collaboration with Audium. During May and June, Tossie Long and the RCSH Collective will delve into their project exploring The Sound of Black San Francisco. Body, architecture and desire feature in a collection of run-ins, synchronicities, memories and predictions poised for performance, unearthing a symphonic tapestry of sound.

Esalen Institute

accompanist

Since time immemorial, movement, dance, and the expressive arts have provided individuals and communities with a sense of soulful expression, healing, inspiration, spirit, and connection. We now need to reconnect with these ways more than ever.

The Life/Art Process®, developed by Anna Halprin and Daria Halprin, bridges body awareness, art expression, and psychological processes, providing people with an opportunity to experience dance and the expressive arts as a way to learn, heal, expand creativity, and develop new strategies for personal and professional life. This groundbreaking, innovative approach to human development, embodied creativity, and transformative learning began in the 1950s, and the tradition continues today.

Palace of Fine Arts

drums / percussion

Immerse yourself in the melodies of nature, as a chamber orchestra brings to life the music of Stardew Valley!

Stardew Valley: Festival of Seasons is an intimate, immersive live concert featuring fresh arrangements of the most cherished songs from the game's mesmerizing soundtrack.

Curated by ConcernedApe, the concert program will take you on a musical journey through the four seasons of the valley, its unforgettable festivals, and its beloved villagers.

Join us at Festival of Seasons and experience the magic of Stardew Valley like never before!

PUSH Dance Company

composer / performer

Partnering with Ruth Williams Opera House, PUSH builds upon their successful grand opening of their BIPOC Sanctuary in an event filled with networking, a live music and dance performance, and a chance to view test runs of new technology and dance science. In the dance performance, Simpson will demonstrate what happens when humans and tech collide in harmony and chaos by debuting the world premiere of Performable Posthumanism. Suggested donation tickets start at $20 with a special symposium with technologists and artists to start the event.

The symposium & performance is a culture driven experience empowering creatives, technologists and artists to empower and amplify the stories of Black founders. Leaders in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence take the space to perform demonstrations alongside their inspirational stories in a field where Black/African American individuals makeup only 7% of tech jobs according to Zippia.

ODC/Dance

sound designer

Inspired by the cartoons of Max Fleischer from the 1920’s and 1930’s, Inkwell draws from a black and white universe of oddballs, misfits, and maniacs. With a movement vocabulary rooted in physical comedy, vaudeville forms, and early cinema, the piece explores the power of demagogues over unwitting humans and the path from seduction to indoctrination. Music by Raymond Scott, Django Reinhardt, and other early jazz musicians. Inkwell choreography by Kimi Okada.

Adia Millett / Haines Gallery

sound artist

Haines Gallery is proud to present Reflections on Black, our first solo exhibition with Oakland-based multidisciplinary artist Adia Millett. Blackness and the subtleties of moonlight inform Millett’s palette in new paintings and glass mosaics that examine our experiences of literal and metaphorical darkness. Presenting a shadowy world navigated through introspection, Reflections on Black asks the questions: What do we see when we close our eyes, and when do we choose to close them?

Throughout her practice, Millett establishes conscious links to the past—whether to her ancestors and foremothers, or to prior generations of artists and crafters—and collaborations with performers and musicians. For this exhibition, she asked Oakland-based sound artist Miles Lassi to develop an ethereal soundscape based around the themes of darkness and creativity, the relationship between our senses, and how sound can help to redefine the unknown. The subsequent composition was a source of inspiration for Millett as she worked, and is available for visitors to the exhibition to experience.

Broadway SF

percussion

Get ready for an unparalleled musical odyssey as Nickelodeon and GEA Live proudly present: Avatar: The Last Airbender In Concert. This two-plus-hour show with a live orchestra brings the show’s iconic musical score to life, in perfect harmony with highlights and favorite moments from the series. Taiko and erhu will share the spotlight with violins and clarinets, while the series' most beloved scenes play out on screen, bringing viewers into the Avatar world to experience the series’ most memorable moments with Aang, Katara, Toph, Sokka, Zuko and more.

This spectacular production not only magnifies the epic scope and high drama of the series, but also marks a thrilling first – the chance to experience the captivating world of Avatar: The Last Airbender through this live orchestra concert.

Broadway Sacramento

percussion

Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of The Temptations is the electrifying, new smash-hit Broadway musical that follows The Temptations’ extraordinary journey from the streets of Detroit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. With their signature dance moves and silky-smooth harmonies, they rose to the top of the charts creating an amazing 42 Top Ten Hits with 14 reaching number one.

Nominated for 12 Tony® Awards and the winner of the 2019 Tony Award for Best Choreography, Ain’t Too Proud tells the thrilling story of brotherhood, family, loyalty, and betrayal, as the group’s personal and political conflicts threatened to tear them apart during a decade of civil unrest in America.

FOR-SITE Foundation

sound engineer / performer

Presented by FOR-SITE in partnership with the National Park Service (NPS) and the Golden Gate ational Parks Conservancy (Parks Conservancy) and conceived by Founding Executive Director & Chief Curator Cheryl Haines, the Keepers of the Fire series. Keepers of the Fire is the organization's first-ever collaboration with curators from major Bay Area institutions, including: Susan Miller, Executive Director at McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, earth; Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge, Contemporary Art and Programming at Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, fire; Veronica Roberts, John and Jill Freidenrich Director at Cantor Arts Center, water; Frank Smigiel, Director of Arts Programming & Partnerships at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, air; Cheryl Haines, Executive Director & Chief Curator at FOR-SITE, ether.

BROADWAY SF - Golden Gate Theatre

percussionist

An uplifting comeback story like no other, TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is the inspiring journey of a woman who broke barriers and became the Queen of Rock n’ Roll. Set to the pulse-pounding soundtrack of her most beloved hits, this electrifying sensation will send you soaring to the rafters.

One of the world’s best-selling artists of all time, Tina Turner has won 12 Grammy Awards and her live shows have been seen by millions, with more concert tickets sold than any other solo performer in music history.

Featuring her much loved songs, TINA – THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL is written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Katori Hall and directed by the internationally acclaimed Phyllida Lloyd.

PUSH Dance Company

composer / sound designer

PUSH Dance Company kicks off its 18th home season with grand-opening performances at its new BIPOC Artists Sanctuary home at 447 Minna Street in downtown San Francisco on Sunday, October 15, from 6pm to 8pm. The season will feature the world premiere of an Artificial Intelligence site-specific dance work Performable Posthumanism by Artistic Director Raissa Simpson.

In creating Performable Posthumanism, Simpson examines potential outcomes of (AI) technology in the judicial system for people of African descent. In particular, the project illuminates the dangers of AI tools and their inevitable biases, discriminatory outcomes, and unintelligible decisions for humans caught in the legal system. The work features technology collaborators including Miles Lassi, jamil nasim, Ryan Wu, Philip Buter, and flying drone operator John Eric Henry. For Simpson, Performable Posthumanism continues to spark creative interaction with technology tools she first experimented with in the success of a past project titled, Codelining. “To be posthuman and constantly in a state of performing is to be Black because we’re in the multiverse and constantly questioning our identity as we live within systemic racism and algorithms designed to police our speech and bodies,” says Simpson.

A.C.T.

electronic drums / percussion

A.C.T. presents the classic musical, The Wizard of Oz, from Tony Award–nominated director/choreographer Sam Pinkleton (Soft Power and Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812) and Tony Award-winning designer David Zinn (Edward Albee’s Seascape at A.C.T). Do you remember the first time you saw L. Frank Baum’s classic tale come to life? The sweeping music and lyrics by Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, the beloved characters, and the enthralling journey of a young girl from a grayscale Kansas prairie to a world filled with color, danger, and magic. For decades this enchanting classic musical has been a part of some of the best moments of our lives. When you enter the Toni Rembe Theater to experience The Wizard of Oz, you’ll connect with rekindled memories—as well as the spark of unexpected surprises and twists!

Stanford University TAPS

composer

FALL/FLIGHT is a post-disciplinary dance depicting the visible and invisible struggles of equity and access for women in today’s 21st-century world. The creation of the dance included a dialogic process by incorporating the voices of six women who then embodied their stories into an Aerial dance. Later, the cast added members to help assist the Aerialists fly in the air through the usage of set pieces. The exploration of feminism and modern-day womanism are key components to FALL/FLIGHT’s ongoing theme.

Sarah Bush Dance Project

sound designer / photographer

MURMUR is presented by an intergenerational and multicultural collective of artists from various disciplines: contemporary dance, visual/installation art, spoken word, fashion, music, and film. We believe in the power of art and the importance of people and the environment. Birds are the one animal that are ever-present, whether urban, suburban, or rural. They are a key part of our ecosystem and something everyone has had exposure to in daily life. SBDP’s incarnation of local birds brings everything together in a seamless, natural, and performative experience.

Opera Parallèle

sound designer / engineer

Opera Parallèle is taking you to the top of the world! Immerse yourself in the awe-inspiring landscapes of Everest for a one-of-a-kind operatic adventure. Based on the true story of an ill-fated expedition in 1996, a group of mountaineers tap into the depths of their physical and emotional selves to realize their dreams of conquering Everest. Following the critical success of OP’s award-winning, genre-defying animated film Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera, the company now offers an entirely new way to experience opera, placing the audience directly in the action among the intricate imagery and soaring soundworld of this breathtaking story. This cutting-edge work fuses the vivid imagery of graphic novels with the visceral power of the operatic voice in a unique multi-sensory environment.

Presidio Theatre

drummer

Panto in the Presidio returns with Sleeping Beauty this December. A wildly funny musical mashup of true love, talking dogs, singing chickens, dancing ghosts, and enough fairy magic for the entire family. Audiences can join in the Panto traditions of booing the villains, cheering the heroes, singing along to popular songs – with a few new lyrics – and helping the fairies cast magic spells. Will the evil witch Hernia be defeated? Will the princess Sonoma ever find her true love’s kiss? It’s up to you! This holiday delight will have audience members out of their seats to get in on the action.

Chapter 510

videographer

“Oakland Belonging: The Voices of Swan’s Market,” a self guided audio tour created by youth in Oakland, California.

How do we reflect past, present, and future stories into the built environment? How might this process enable placemaking, placekeeping and belonging?

Holding these ambitious inquiries closely, a group of curious high school students gathered in January of 2022 at Chapter 510 in Oakland, California. Thus began a nine-month exploration of Swan’s Market, a local landmark with a rich history.

AXIS dance company

composer / sound designer

AXIS’s new Artistic Director Nadia Adame presents a triple bill of world premiere pieces for her first home season in this role. Named after the Spanish word for both ‘forward’ and ‘go ahead,’ the three works in Adelante all find common ground in the triumph of the human spirit.

Adame opens the evening with her new piece Breathe Again, which explores the most suffocating parts of our collective and individual journeys: After a moment, a smile, a word, we pivot from those difficult moments and find a way to move forward.

NOW Hunters Point
Kristin Damrow & Company

videographer

Intentional Shift is a nomadic site-specific performance and artist focus group series that brings closure to the program NOW Hunters Point, a unique community-based activation project in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood that began in 2013 on the former PG&E Power Plant site. Featuring collaborations with local artists and community storytellers, the project will culminate on Sept 24th with a site-specific dance performance and arts installation at Hunters Point Shoreline Park. Audiences will be invited to explore how communities inhabit space, how spaces influence bodies, how design can bring communities together, and how history is held in individual and collective bodies.

Joey Bada$$
“Written for the Stars”

percussion

2000 is the third studio album by American rapper Joey Badass. It was released on July 22, 2022 through Pro Era Records and Cinematic Music Group. The album features guest appearances from Diddy, Westside Gunn, Larry June, Chris Brown, Capella Grey, and JID. Production of the album was handled primarily by Statik Selektah and Chuck Strangers, with contributions from Erick the Architect, McClenney, Mike Will Made It, Kirk Knight, and Cardiak.

Sara Shelton Mann
Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture

sound designer/ performer

A master artist of extraordinary innovation and influence, San Francisco Bay Area choreographer, poet, and teacher Sara Shelton Mann brings 7 Excavations to FMCAC in this 21-day activation of the campus – culminating in a summer solstice performance debut of scores in development for 20 years. Join Mann and her collaborators as they embark on an open residency in celebration of nature’s wisdom, experimental dance pedagogy, and physical gathering to find our place in the world at this unprecedented time.

Egwu Onwu: Mixtape for the Dead

sound designer / performer

egwu ọnwụ Ahamefula is the first stage in the ‘Egwu Onwu: Mixtape for the Dead’ (MDG) series as part of the ‘Obi gbawara’m//My Heart Shattered or What happens after I die?’ (OGB) project. Created and facilitated by multimedium cultural artist and producer Nkeiruka Oruche, OGB is a multimedia performance, & cultural reclamation project reactivating the practice of death and grief performance from the Igbo Ọdịnanị & Ọmenala tradition. Drawing from pre-colonial Igbo traditional forms, as a point of departure, MDG will recreate & reimagine grief songs, dances, and poems remixed with Pan Afro-urban forms to explore the questions How do we hold pain, grief & joy for ourselves & as a community? How do we define & self-determine our liberatory practices? And how do we remember who we are in societies designed to make us forget?

Axis Dance Company, Joyce Theater

composer / sound designer

Winner – Best Feature Film
Experimental Dance & Film Festival, 2022

Winner – Best Live Capture Dance Film
Inspired Dance Film Festival, 2022

Official Selection
Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, 2022

Roots Above Ground, Marc Brew’s final work for AXIS as Artistic Director, will explore the multiple meanings of home as it peels back the layers to uncover the human need for belonging. The signature dance piece will delve deep into Marc’s own emotional journey as an immigrant, a disabled gay man, and a dancer–always moving to follow his ambition while longing to belong.

Opera Parallèle, Dallas Opera

recording / mix engineer

Jury Awards for Creative Achievement
Arizona International Film Festival, 2022

Opera Parallèle’s groundbreaking new film production of Joby Talbot’s Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera. Based on the true stories of an ill-fated summit attempt known as the 1996 Mt. Everest disaster, this cutting-edge work fuses the dynamic aesthetics of the graphic novel with the power of the operatic voice. OP’s innovative approach integrates live singers into the animated space, reinventing the operatic experience beyond the stage.

Rara Tou Limen, BAM DanceAfrica

Official Selection
Haiti International Film Festival, 2022

Official Selection
Silicon Valley African Film Festival, 2023.

videographer / editor / sound designer / scout

Founded by Portsha Jefferson, the Bay Area-based Haitian folkloric dance company, Rara Tou Limen, will offer a dance centered on the lwa Agwe. Jefferson was inspired by a trip she and her company members made in 2019 to Benin in West Africa—the birthplace of Vodou. Jefferson, who is a practitioner of Vodou says, “I want audiences to see that Vodou is an honorable and respectable tradition. I want them to know that the dance they're seeing is just one part of it, a beautiful part. I would like for people to leave DanceAfrica honoring and celebrating it, and knowing that it is a healing tradition—a sacred tradition.”

Mikayla McVey, Long Road Society

recording engineer / musician

Time Turns Everything is the first full-length LP from Mikayla McVey and her second studio collaboration with producer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, & deep space explorer James Wallace aka SKYWAY MAN. The album is a staggering work of heartache & healing that takes a spiraling & personal pass at answering a very old question: where does love go when it dies? And furthermore… can love ever die? It looks at the heart, the lover, and the process through a range of musical kaleidoscopes, and ultimately delivers a meditation on the power of time to transform pure grief into melody, poetry, vibration, and medicine for the future.

Kambara+, Japanese American Citizens League-San Jose

composer / sound designer

Japanese American Citizens League-San Jose commissions Yayoi Kambara to create IKKAI means once: a transplanted pilgrimage, an installation dance project that weaves together modern dance and Japanese American (JA) obon folk dance (bon odori) movement languages and a compelling musical score with taiko drum to guide audiences through a first person narrative that explores the unjust internment of JAs, subsequent struggles for reparations and healing, and current and future solidarities with communities facing the violence of xenophobic policies. The mission of the JACL is to secure and safeguard the civil and human rights of Asian and Pacific Islander Americans and all communities who are affected by injustice and bigotry. Commissioning IKKAI will advance the JACL’s mission as they engage a multigenerational audience through a deeply researched artistic project that demythologizes internment through a personal narrative with performances presented in community-rooted venues free of cost.

Lands End Exhibition FOR-SITE Foundation

Meredith Webster, Ana Teresa Fernandez

live score / sound designer

FOR-SITE’s new exhibition, Lands End, invites visitors to wade into an immersive environment where their charge is twofold: to discover artwork in unlikely places and to consider the planet’s health. By bringing together a group of artists from around the world, the exhibition strives to remind viewers of our interconnectedness via global currents of water and air, and to encourage them to partake in all the fresh ideas and perspectives that emerge from the rising tides as we head deeper into this tumultuous century.

Merola Opera Program, RAPT Productions

video editor

Merola Opera Program presents What the Heart Desires. Celebrating diversity in song, What the Heart Desires was co-curated by mezzo-soprano Ronnita Miller (Merola ‘05) and tenor Nicholas Phan. It explores the many things our hearts desire and features compositions by women and people of color. The program includes selections about romantic desire, physical desire, and the longing for home, for rest, for peace, and for a better world​​​​​. The recital was performed and filmed live on July 3, 2021 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Concert Hall.

Afro Urban Society

audio / visual production

Bakanal de Afrique (BdA), is a multidisciplinary Afro Urban festival by Afro Urban Society that brings us together across cultures, and showcases new, emerging and underground urban art, culture and people through performance, workshops, visual media and conversations. From its birth in 2009, Bakanal de Afrique intended to be a phenomenon that stretched the length and breadth of the world, and united Urban Africans in a unique way.

field sonics

creator

Blending the most harmonious human sounds with various ecological soundscapes and acoustics. field sonics, is a tribute to live performance and the great outdoors. This filmed series showcases diverse artists, curated environmental sounds and rare vistas.

Sarah Bush Dance Project, Audubon California

composer / videographer / editor / sound designer

Six Foot Wingspan

Dance and Artist Residency with Sarah Bush Dance Project and Audubon California

We are a collection of artists and creations exploring and deepening our awareness by tuning into the birds. Sarah Bush Dance Project is known for their award-winning intergenerational dance theater performances. Sarah and company have spent several seasons creating site-specific and site-inspired works. The company has developed a This Land creative process of using the senses to generate language and movement. They have been studying birds, bird language, and bird movement as part of this artist residence.