My main passion is music. I have been writing music since I was 15, and during high school, I was fortunate to have fellow musicians in my local youth orchestra perform three pieces I wrote. Currently, I’m a third-year composition major at UBC, and have written everything from instrumental and experimental electronic music, to film and video game soundtracks. My music often depicts intense emotional experiences like climate change anxiety, or stirring natural scenes like a star collapsing into a black hole, while being eerily subdued, florid, and hazy-feeling. I have always loved classical music and film soundtracks, but lately I have fallen in love with rock and pop from the 80s and 90s, as well as jazz and folk music.
Long-term, I want to work professionally as a composer, writing music for orchestras, films, and video games, while also teaching music privately or at a university. After graduating from UBC, I hope to pursue a Master of Music in composition abroad, either in the United States or the United Kingdom, and then eventually work towards completing a doctorate in composition.
More recently, I participated in a composing workshop run by the Langley Community Music School, and in March, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performed and workshopped my piece “Singularity”, which was inspired from the lives of supernovas. Right now, I am writing a short opera about the Canadian suffragette Eliza Ritchie, being performed in August as part of a Halifax opera company’s “Opera from Scratch” program.
Outside of music, I enjoy analyzing films’ literary themes, and learning about eighteenth century history, and constitutional law. I also love meeting new people, which is why I volunteered as an orientation leader with UBC for the past two years