He is a graduate of East Carolina University and the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where he studied with Robert Carter and Raymond Dudley. He also has studied privately with Rudolph Ganz and Byron Janis, and in 1969 he was awarded a performing fellowship at the International Bach Society Summer Study Session under the direction of Rosalyn Tureck. In 1970, he received a Fulbright-Hayes grant to Italy where he studied chamber music with Guido Agosti at the Academia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and private piano with Ilonka Deckers-Küszler in Milan, Italy.