He has composed over 75 works for traditional Japanese instruments and since 2002 has been affiliated with AURA-J, one of the premiere contemporary-traditional Japanese music ensembles. In 2002 his composition Song-Poem of the Eastern Clouds (2001), for shakuhachi and 21-string koto, was premiered and awarded a prize at the 5th Annual Composition Competition for Traditional Japanese Instruments at the National Theatre of Japan. Widely regarded as the authoritative source on the subject and the only resource of its kind available in English, his translation of Minoru Miki’s orchestration manual Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008, with a second printing expected in 2015.