He completed his undergraduate studies at the Peabody Conservatory with Morris Cotel where he won first prize in the bi-annual Virginia Carty de Lillo Composition Competition.
He has worked with many leading composers in the United States and France, including: George Crumb, Jacob Druckman, Robert Hall Lewis, Philippe Manoury, and André Boucourechliev.
He worked on an evening-length modern dance/theater piece with the Belgian choreographer Johanne Saunier [fr; nl] and founding member of the Wooster Group Jim Clayburgh based on Nabokov's Lolita.
Major projects include an "imaginary opera" based on Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita for actor, dancers, video, ensemble and electronics realized in collaboration with JOJI; Speaking in Tongues, a concerto written for Les Percussions de Strasbourg's 50th anniversary tour, Objets trouvé written for the ensemble Court-circuit and La Quintina for string quartet and electronics written for the Arditti Quartet and premiered at the Ultraschall festival in Berlin that marked the first co-realization between the ExperimentalStudio in Freiburg and IRCAM in Paris.
In June 2017, Chicago's Dal Niente Ensemble and Mocrep premiered his take my hand..., an evening-length immersive musical theater that explores ecstatic states.