He taught for many years at the University of Northern Colorado and now holds the title of Professor Emeritus there.
He has been a soloist several times at the World Saxophone Congress in the United States, Canada, Europe and Japan, and continues to be active nationally as a soloist and clinician, having performed professionally in 46 states, Mexico, Canada, Thailand, Peru, Taiwan, and South Korea.
For ten years he performed for television and motion pictures at Twentieth Century Fox and Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles under such composers as John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin.
For many years he was a member of the Harvey Pittel Saxophone Quartet, an internationally recognized touring ensemble.
Many of these performances have been under some of the world's great conductors, including Zubin Mehta, André Previn, Michael Tilson Thomas, Philippe Entremont, Luciano Berio, Leonard Slatkin, Yuri Temirkanov, Sixten Ehrling, Sergiu Comissiona and James DePreist.