RECENT SOUNDTRACKS
• Lark Snare (Independent Film, Patrick Mahaffey 2006)
• Magical Cinema Shorts (compiled by David Shepard, Image Entertainment),
various, 1904-1923, live music silent film score for BING (Lensic 2006)
• High & Dry (Public TV Documentary, Joe Day 2005)
• La Tumba de La Reina Roja (Museum documentary on the paintings of Ricardo
Mazal, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City 2005)
• Circus Luminous (Touring Circus Production – New Mexico, Bing/Wise
Fool/Moving People): Lensic, Santa Fe 2003-2006; New Mexico tour of Albuquerque,
Clovis, Silver City, Socorro 2005-2006)
• The Man Who Laughs (Paul Leni, 1928), live music silent film score for
BING + cello and turntables, commissioned by SITE Santa Fe for their 2004
Biennial, Lensic.
• Steamboat Bill, Jr (Buster Keaton, 1929), live music silent film score
for BING, performed at Albuquerque's Kimo Theater January 2003, Taos Film
Festival March 2005, Lensic 2005, 2006)
OTHER RELATED
• Composer in Residence, Santa Fe Opera Student
Produced Operas Program 2005-current (projects various locations around
New Mexico including Tierra Amarrilla,
Chama, Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Roswell)
• Current Contract with New Mexico Film Office for soundtrack for Historic
Silent Films from New Mexico.
• Adjunct Faculty, College of Santa Fe’s Contemporary Music Program,
2003-current. 20th Century Music Theory, Improvisation Ensemble, Private
Lessons
• Co-Producer various Festival and Performance Events, including Live Music
Silent Film Festival 2004-2006, Lensic, Santa Fe (included Film Music Community
Gathering, panel discussion and the New Mexico Film Music Showcase)
• Co-Founder, LittleGlobe Productions. New Mexico non-profit dedicated
to the creation of new, creative and community engaged intermedia projects.
Soundtracks, video, intermedia, creative sector advocacy.
ENSEMBLES
As a leader or co-leader
• Rrake (2006-current), Avant-rock, nine-person. High Mayhem Festival 2006
• BING (2002-current) (1 CD releases), Alternative World Pop. Circus Luminous,
soundtracks, regional tours.
• Amitosis (2001-current) (1 CD, international tours), experimental/conduction
jazz, polygroove.
• The Sun Spits Cherries (1995-2001) (2 CD releases), Soprano sax, tenor
and bass trombone, piano, percussion. Jazz, New York City.
• Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet (1993-2002) (1 CD release, national tours)
• Great Circle Saxophone Quartet (1989-1994) (1 CD release, national tours)
As a sideperson
• Cecil Taylor Ensembles (various) 1994-1997 (2 CD releases, international
festivals and tours)
• Anthony Braxton Ensembles (various) 1995-2003 (7 CD releases, tours)
• William Parker’s Little Huey Ensemble 1992-2001 (4 CD releases,
tours)
As a guest conductor
• Chicago Improvisers Group (2001)
• Albuquerque Creative Ensemble (2001)
• Cleveland Creative Orchestra (2000)
• Slovenian National Radio Orchestra (1999)
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
• Almeda, Cecil Taylor (FMP ’05)
• Live at the Verona Jazz Festival, William Parker's "Little Huey" Creative
Music Orchestra ('05 Black Saint)
• Adventure Realty, amitosis (Hopscotch, '05)
• Galore, Bing ('04, QuinnerBinner)
• Mass for the Healing of the World, William Parker & the Little Huey
Creative Music Orchestra (Black Saint ’04)
• Alto Quartets, James Fei (Organized Sound ’04)
• Composition No. 285 (Antwerp, 2000) A. Braxton Tenet (Splasc(h) ‘03)
• Two Compositions (Trio )1998, Anthony Braxton (Leo '03)
• Light of Corona, Cecil Taylor(FMP '03)
• Composition 169 + Ghost Trance (Ljubjiana), A.Braxton / The Slovenia
National Radio Orchestra (Leo '01)
• The Vermilion, Chris Jonas' The Sun Spits Cherries featuring Myra Melford
('01, Hopscotch)
• Ensembles Unsynchronized, Chris Jonas Quintet (‘00, NewSonic Records)
• Mayor of Punkville, William Parker's "Little Huey" Orchestra
(Aum '00)
• The Way of the Saxophone, Brooklyn Sax Quartet (C. Jonas, Sam Furnace,
David Bindman, Fred Ho), (Innova '00)
• The Sun Spits Cherries, Chris Jonas’ The Sun Spits Cherries (‘99,
Hopscotch Records)
• The Hollow World, Assif Tsahar’s Brass Reeds Ensemble (Hopscotch
Records ’99)
• Four Compositions (Washington DC), Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Ensemble
(Braxton House ‘99)
• Trillium R: Shala Fears for the Poor (Opera), Anthony Braxton Ensemble
(Braxton House ‘99)
• Full Circle Suite, Joe Fonda Quintet (C. Jonas, J. Fonda, Gebhard Ullman,
Taylor Ho Bynum, Kevin Norton) (CIMP ‘99)
• Vision Vol. I: Vision Fest. ‘97 Compiled, "Hoang", William
Parker's "Little Huey" Orchestra ('98 Aum)
• Vision Vol. I: Vision Fest. ‘97 Compiled, "Conduction #72",
Butch Morris ('98 Aum)
• Sunrise on the Tone World, William Parker's "Little Huey" Creative
Music Orchestra ('97 Aum)
• Child King Dictator Fool, Great Circle Saxophone Quartet ('97, New World
Records)
• Flowers Grow in My Room, William Parker's "Little Huey" Creative
Music Orchestra ('94 Centering)
• American Works for Balinese Gamelan Orchestra, Evan Ziporyn/Nyoman Windha’s "Kekembangan"(for
sax quartet and Balinese Gamelan Orchestra), Gamelan Sekar Jaya ('93 New
World Records)
EDUCATION
• New York University - School for Continuing
and Professional Studies (Certificate in Multimedia/Digital Design),
2001. CD and Web Media, Design and Multimedia.
• Wesleyan University, CT (MA music composition / world music), 1996-99.
Composition and intermedia arts.
• Mannes College - Additional Studies in Composition, 1992-1994
• New School for Social Research, Jazz Studies, 1991-1993
• Oberlin College, OH (BA Art History / Art Studio), 1984-88
