My research primarily involves creating foundational electric guitar repertoire within contemporary classical music. With my compositions, I aim to provide composers with material that they can draw from in their own electric guitar writing, exploring the technical and sonic possibilities and limitations of the instrument and the ways in which we can notate electric guitar music to best communicate our intentions to performers, and provide electric guitarists with the opportunity to engage in contemporary classical music in a meaningful way, drawing from various modern styles of playing that have become popular within the electric guitar community, particularly over the last thirty years.
My compositions draw from my professional background as an electric guitarist and from my academic background in composing contemporary classical music, and so I am particularly interested in the musical interactions between the electric guitar and classical instruments and ensembles, and exploring the various forms that virtuosic electric guitar music might take within contemporary classical music.