I am a cellist/composer and social gadfly currently living in New York City. When people ask me what kind of music I write, I generally request that they never ask again--but, if they press, I tell them punk-classical. It doesn't really mean anything of course, but it sounds neat and vaguely approximates my approach toward music these days.

Most of my time and attention right now is devoted to my Phd in Composition which I'm striving for at the CUNY Graduate Center. My dissertation on Nine Inch Nails has officially begun, and hopefully I'll be officially the hell out of there in a year or so.

My performance and composition life is for the most part centered on the punk chamber group, Anti-Social Music, of which I am a co-founder and gleeful ne'er-do-well. You should be coming to all of our concerts. I don't care that you live in __________! Just get your ass out here and see the future of everything. The upcoming ASM album, Anti-Social Music Sings the Great American Songbook, will be coming out very, very soon and will include my own Fracture II.

So...I'm not gonna spoon feed you all the info you could ever want. Wanna know about the pieces I've written? Check out the Works page for a complete list (in some cases, including downloadable score pages and MP3s). Want to see or hear my music in action? Check out the Media page. In fact, check out all of the self-explanatory links above--If you made it to this page, you'll probably manage the rest all on your lonesome. Oh, and if you want to talk to me for some reason, you can e-mail me (if you are a spammer, I shall hunt down and kill you with extreme prejudice. That goes double for you spambots out there).

Oh shit, I forgot all of the standard boilerplate bragging stuff. I've studied with two (count 'em 2) Pulitzer Prize-winning composers (namely, John Corigliano and David Del Tredici). I received a bunch of awards in college that I don't remember anymore. I've played cello (and occassionally, the trombone and piano) with a number of bands, including dalek, come down, World/Inferno Friendship Society, Andrew Spencer, John Guilt, and The Dirty Sock Funtime Band. And, finally, I sometimes cop a fake egotistical attitude in my bios in order to cover up some--and possibly all four--of the following things:

  1. I'm somewhat neurotic and find myself shifting from an overly blustery attitude to an overly self-effacing attitude with a reckless disregard for human decency
  2. I genuinely DO feel proud of the things I'm discussing, and try to hide it behind a dual layer of self-effacement hidden behind bluster
  3. I think bragging about this sort of stuff is silly and it's funny to indulge in it, and/or...
  4. My name is really Felicio Torres, the greatest lover in all of Mexico