He was best known in Australia as artistic director and chairman of the jury of the Sydney International Piano Competition after Rex Hobcroft.
From 1960 to 1972 he was Foundation Director of Music, Trinity Grammar School, Melbourne, where his secondary role as boarding-house master earned him a reputation as a fine cook and organiser of dinner dances.
[citation needed] In 1989 he was the first Australian to be invited to present a paper at the Annual Conference of the Music Teachers' Association, US.
[citation needed] He undertook numerous overseas study tours to investigate music education in Europe, Japan, South America, the US, Hungary, Poland and the former Soviet Union.
In 2001 he was made an honorary fellow of the Institute of Music Teachers (Australia) and member of the Organizing Committee of the Horowitz International Piano Competition, Kiev, Ukraine.