He is currently a participant composer in the New York Youth Symphony’s Making Score program, with an upcoming performance at Symphony Space (NYC) and reading by the American Composers’ Orchestra. Past honors include a Fulbright Fellowship to Belgrade, Serbia, and multiple scholarships and awards from Bard College at Simon’s Rock, where he graduated with his B.A. magna cum laude at the age of nineteen. Additional studies at the Belgrade Faculty of Music and Juilliard. He attended the 2011 highSCORE festival in Pavia, Italy, where his string quartet Balkan was premiered by Quartetto Indaco. His teachers have included Tatjana Milošević Mijanović, Larry Wallach, and Conrad Cummings.