sentences:  He attended P.S.56 and J.H.S 80 in the Bronx, then the High School of Music and Art (now called LaGuardia High School), Columbia University and the Manhattan School of Music.During that time, he was trained classically as a composer and pianist, studying piano at the Hebrew Arts School (now the Lucy Moses School) with Natan Brand, and composition privately with Dr. Miriam Gideon and then with John Corigliano, Jr.