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DBR is a composer, performer, violinist, and bandleader who seamlessly blends funk, rock, hip-hop and classical music into a new, personal sonic vision. Serving as a classical-urban ambassador for a widening global audience, he embraces his classical music roots with a multicolored spectrum of contemporary black popular music. His exploration of musical sounds and rhythms is peppered by cultural references and his own vibrant musical imagination. His dramatic soul-inspiring pieces range from orchestral scores and energetic chamber works, to rock songs and electronica.

As a composer, DBR has collaborated with an array of orchestras and chamber ensembles; the orchestras of Dallas, Memphis, San Antonio, St. Louis, and most recently the Chicago Sinfonietta, the Brooklyn Philharmonic, the North Dutch Orchestra, and the American Composers Orchestra have performed or commissioned his works, and Bill T. Jones and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s regularly collaborate with him---DBR is the Music Director of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the Assistant Composer-in-Residence of the OSL. As Artist-in-Residence at Arizona State University, DBR collaborated with Philip Glass in Seen & Heard: Philip Glass and DBR Together on Stage, Screen and in Sound. He also serves as the Artist-in-Residence of the Seattle Theater Group sponsored by Starbucks.

Current projects include his highly anticipated 2007 debut season at BAM’s NextWave Festival featuring One Loss Plus for violin, piano, electronics and video; 24 Bits: Hip Hop Studies and Etudes and Event Pieces performed by DBR on piano and laptop; and Call Them All: Fantasy Projections for Film, Laptop, and Orchestra, which received its world premiere at Carnegie's Zankel Hall by the American Composers Orchestra, and WE MARCH, a guitar concerto for Eliot Fisk and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. In etudes4violin&electronix, DBR’s debut solo album from Thirsty Ear Records, he joins forces with a myriad of world class musicians including Philip Glass, Ryuichi Sakamoto, DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid and DJ Scientific, offering a series of lyrical and pulsing duets and solo works.

As a violinist and performer, DBR performed his arrangements of Cassandra Wilson’s Glamoured with the jazz vocalist and her quintet while conducting the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Buffalo Philharmonic; rocked with DJ Spooky at the Lincoln Center Summer Festival and premiered a ground-breaking fusion of contrasting cultures and instruments with DJ Scientific in DBR’s Sonata for Violin and Turntables at the Melbourne Arts Festival and Vancouver’s PuSh Festival for the Performing Arts.