Expert design advice from the sound up.

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New York, NY | Opened 2025

Hailed by the New York Times as one of the best places to hear chamber performances in New York City

I led acoustical consulting at Arup for the renovation and expansion of the Frick Collection, a historic house museum on New York's Upper East Side. The project included new galleries, a multimedia teaching space, a restaurant, an art conservation lab and updated offices and conference rooms.

I collaborated closely with Selldorf Architects to design a new 220-seat auditorium that hosts chamber music concerts, talks and film screenings. The design features two overlapping shells acoustically optimized to focus sound from the musicians, creating an intimate listening environment loved by performers, audience members and music critics alike.

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Fishtail, Montana, USA | Opened 2024

Named one of the World's Greatest Places by Time Magazine

I led a team of engineers at Arup to design and build a unique outdoor music space at the Tippet Rise Art Center in the foothills of the Beartooth Mountains. The center's founders had long dreamed of listening to classical music surrounded by nature, and I collaborated closely with them in a series of workshops to turn their concept sketches into a buildable design. The Geode is acoustically optimized to reflect and contain sound within four acoustic shells, creating a sonically immersive 'room without walls.' It protects musicians and audience members from the sun and wind but also allows sweeping views over the remote and rugged landscape.

Image credits: Kevin Kinzley, Willem Boning, Willem Boning

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Lima, Peru | 2024

I advised Rafael Osterling, one of Peru's most celebrated chefs, on a broad range of acoustical upgrades to Picnic, El Mercado and Rocco, three restaurants in his portfolio. I helped him control noise buildup in the restaurants' dining rooms, retrofit rooftop structures to block mechanical noise and reduce kitchen noise breakout through the ventilation shafts among other challenges.

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Montreal, Quebec | Opened 2019

La Musique Aux Enfants is an experimental music education program for preschoolers in North Montreal, one of the city's most underserved neighborhoods. Inspired by El Sistema, the program is a collaboration between the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, the Université de Montréal and the Centre de services scolaires de la Pointe-de-l'Île.

I led the acoustical design of the program's education space. Together with architects LeMayMichaud, I worked to transform the dingy basement of a public school into a world-class teaching facility with whisper-quiet background noise and professional-quality sound isolation, allowing multiple classes to go on at once in a comfortable and serene environment.

Image credits: Raphaël Thibodeau

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New York, NY | 2024

I helped the New York Climate Film Festival maximize the use of their rental venue, a historic fire station in downtown NYC, by improving the venue's acoustics.

Prior to asking for my help, Alec, the Film Festival founder, was not sure the festival would be able to screen films and hold talks at the same time because there was so much sound bleed from one room into the other. I helped Alec identify a range of quick and low-cost solutions to improve the sound isolation, including sealing gaps, renting portable drapery and even rearranging furniture.

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New York, NY | 2022-2023

I was commissioned by the Trust for Governors Island to help artist Charles Gaines shape the sound of his monumental kinetic sculpture 'Moving Chains,' installed on Governors Island from 2022 to 2023. Charles wanted his artwork to evoke the experience of being in a slave ship and envisioned an immersive sonic environment where visitors would not only hear but feel chains clanking and dragging above their heads.

I worked with Charles, producers Creative Time and the project's fabricators to tune the sound of the sculpture's rotating chain links, advising on material selection, structural connections and details of the chain mechanism, including two full days of mockup testing in a warehouse we had taken over to test the chain drive mechanism.

Image credits: Timothy Schenk, Scott Lynch, Willem Boning

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New York, NY | 2018

Early in my career at Arup I advised architects at HWKN on how to create a calm and quiet environment for Casper's The Dreamery, a pop-up napping experience in SoHo. The holistic acoustical approach included reducing noise buildup in the napping area, developing creative options for the nap pod door closure, and even devising strategies for ventilating the pods that would minimize sound bleed.

Image credits: HWKN, NY Post, Willem Boning