[6] He studied at both the Tanglewood Institute in Boston and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, before moving on to Wesleyan University in Connecticut.

In 2001, he earned his first screen credit as composer for his work on the Sundance award-winning feature film, The Deep End, starring Tilda Swinton.

[8] In the ensuing years, he composed the music for several features including Bee Season, the 2005 film adaptation of the novel of the same name, written by Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal and starring Richard Gere and Juliette Binoche,[9] The Night Listener (2006), based on Armistead Maupin’s novel of the same name and starring Robin Williams and Toni Collette,[10] the academy-award winning documentary film No End in Sight (2007) and the 2009 thriller Carriers.

[11] More recently, he scored the 2017 Oscar-winning black comedy, I, Tonya directed by Craig Gillespie and Book Club (2018), starring Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Mary Steenburgen, and Candace Bergen.

He composed scores for the TV series Dirty Sexy Money (2007–2009), Rubicon (2010), Lie to Me (2010–2011), Marco Polo (2014–2016), Mike (2022) and Alaska Daily (2022), among others.