He developed a deep interest in cantorial art and history in the wider context of both synagogue and secular Jewish music studies.
He studied choral conducting in Robert Page’s master classes and workshops at the Aspen Music School and Festival in the 1970s, and from 1973 to 1978 he directed the Chicago Zimriya Youth Chorus.
He is also the creator of Vanished Voices,[6][7] a Holocaust commemoration incorporating his research into the music traditions of German-speaking Jewry, performed under his baton in 1996 at London’s Barbican Centre as well as in Los Angeles and New York.
In 1999 he directed more than a dozen concerts (with Schola Hebraeica and other ensembles) at the biannual Sacred Voices Music Village festival.
In 1982 the University of Vienna commissioned him to edit the complete works of Salomon Sulzer for the Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich (Monuments of Music) series.