He holds a PhD from Brandeis University, a Masters degree from the Royal Academy of Music London, and a Bachelor's degree from Amherst College. His is known for developing a compositional technique involving the transcription of precise timing measurements of recorded performances. He has received opera commissions from the Staatstheater Kassel in Germany and the Boston Lyric Opera in America. He has composed instrumental works for Mark Knoop, Marilyn Nonken, Carl Rosman, Serge Vuille, the Kreutzer String Quartet, the Chiara String Quartet and Sound Icon. He was commissioned by the President of Harvard University to compose a work for the 375th commencement ceremony, setting a poem by the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney.