sentences:  in biophysics in 1974 and a Master's degree in musicology in 1978.He went on to the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique where he studied musicology with Yves Gérard in 1978.He was a Fulbright scholar in 1979 at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music where he studied analysis with John Coolidge Adams and obtained a M.A.