He attended Baldwin-Wallace College and Northwestern University, studying primarily with Alan Stout and Bill Karlins with further studies with Bernard Rands, Jakob Druckman and Per N�rg�rd. He taught briefly at Columbia College in Chicago and Eastern Illinois University. Since moving to Britain, he has been involved in a variety of activities, including setting up the concert series Platform in 1990. In 1999 he was a featured composer at the Baldwin-Wallace College Focus Festival. He now works as a music engraver for his company New Notations Computer Services Ltd, and as a freelance trombonist. He was a member of the Britten-Pears Orchestra from 1999-2002, and bass-trombonist in the Orchestra of the City in London from 2002-2006. Currently, he is freelancing in York, as well as playing in the York Symphony Orchestra, York Opera, and The Academy of St Olaves