 His first symphony was completed in 1993.His Second Symphony (1994) was premiered by the Allentown Symphony Orchestra in Pennsylvania received a good notice.His Bosnian Overture, begun in 1994 and completed in the spring of ´95, written in reaction to the Balkan conflict, was performed by members of the Florida Philharmonic and others at a special concert in aid of civilian victims of the war in Bosnia His first Piano Concerto was completed in the spring of 1995, followed by the tone poem "The Mountains of Tolima", a commission from the Conservatory of Tolima, in Ibague, Colombia.