He has attained prominence in his field through his numerous recordings, performances, publications, and teaching engagements.
[1] His recorded repertoire includes music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classical periods, as well as his own compositions.
He began his lute studies with Loris Chobanian at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and continued with Eugen Müller-Dombois and Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
In 1984 he won first prize at the "Erwin Bodky" competition for Early Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He has performed widely on the lute and guitar as a soloist and with musical partners such as Theresia Bothe, Derek Lee Ragin and Susanne Rydén.