<p>@compmom - I asked some of these same questions earlier and got this reply about the OP’s aesthetics - which has colored my replies:
“Aesthetic: By aesthetic do you mean as who I am as a composer? If so, I don’t know exactly what genre I would fall in but my music is most influenced by David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and Michael Gordon from Bang on a can and Yale, which is out of the question sadly; Wolfgang Rihm and Helhut Lachenmann, both are German and only one teaches; Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Eastman; and Baljinder Sekhon who teaches at USF.”</p>