In the Bay Area, his works have been performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony, San Francisco Choral Artists, Mission Chamber Orchestra, LIEDER ALIVE! and others. He holds a Master of Music degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he studied composition with Conrad Susa after a previous 3-year period studying composition and choral conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest Hungary. He is on the Musicianship and Composition faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory’s Pre-College Division. Mr. Kaulkin is also the founder of Swirly Music, a non-profit service offering self-publishing composers an online storefront for their works in print.