"Hi! I’m Griffin, a musician, poet, and artist with degrees in Music and English (B.A. 2018, double major, honors in both) from Yale. The Wire has described my music as “impressive” and “original”: it spans genres like jazz and improvised music, electronic, pop, rock, and concert music/classical. My poems appear in The Paris Review, Plume, Poetry Northwest, Prelude, and elsewhere.

Within music, I’m a composer, drummer, songwriter, vocalist, producer, and multi-instrumentalist (piano/keyboards). I have 13+ years of professional performing, recording, composing, engineering, and production experience. I’ve toured across the U.S. and Europe at venues like the Cornelia Street Café, Miller Theatre, the Rochester International Jazz Festival, Birdland, Caramoor, PS21 Chatham, Mercury Lounge, the Owl, TV EYE, and SOB’s (NY); MASS MoCA/Bang on a Can LOUD Weekend (MA); Morse Recital Hall, Space Ballroom, and Beinecke Library (CT); PhilaMOCA, World Café Live, and the Trocadero (PA); the Baked Potato (LA); Donau115 (Berlin, DE); Celeste and Fabrik (Vienna, AT); Punctum (Prague, CZ); La Schola Cantorum (Paris, FR); and the highSCORE Festival (Pavia, IT).

I’ve been commissioned by the YCBA and new music groups like Opera Elect; premieres and first realizations include performances by the S.E.M. Ensemble, the YSO, and members of the icarus Quartet. I’ve studied with Nobel Laureates and Guggenheim Fellows and shared stages with Pulitzer Prize-winning musicians.

I’d be thrilled to work with you on drums, composition, songwriting, piano/keyboards, music production, electronic music, music theory; poetry, fiction, non-fiction, academic, and application writing; analog and digital photography—you name it! I teach in-person (NYC) and online lessons to all levels of students and have tutored various ages, instruments, and subjects since 2015.

I develop lessons around material you’re interested in learning. This keeps things fun and also helps ground fundamentals/technique through association. Let’s get started!" less...