After a two-year preparation at Brooklyn College's Music Program, he transferred to Carnegie Mellon University under scholarship to study with bass teacher Anthony Bianco where he completed his B.F.A.
Subsequently, he auditioned for and received scholarship to study with Homer Mensch and Eugene Levinson at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, New York for a Master of Fine Arts.
After graduating school he accepted a position as Principal Bassist with the then New Orleans Symphony with conductor Maxim Shostakovich.
In addition to the Buffalo Philharmonic, as of 2006 he accepted part-time employment during the winter months with the Sarasota Orchestra.
In 1993 he scored a political documentary commissioned by Diann Rust-Tierney[8] entitled Double Justice: Race and Capital Punishment[9] which was to be played before the United States Congress.