His music has been performed in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, by Ricardo Iznaola, Elizabeth Keusch, Jonathan Leathwood, Rohan de Saram, Elizabeth Wolff, the East Coast Composers Ensemble, the Sonorities International Festival of Contemporary Music, the Lydian String Quartet, the Pennsylvania Wind Quintet, the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, and many others. His Ph.D. in Composition and Theory is from Brandeis University, where his teachers included Allen Anderson, Martin Boykan, Ed Cohen, Harold Shapero, and Yehudi Wyner. He chairs the Composition and Theory Department in the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music. In the United States, he also has taught at Brandeis University and the New England Conservatory at Walnut Hill. In the United Kingdom, he has taught at the University of Surrey. His scores and recordings are published by Cadenza Music (cadenza-music.com).