Since 1995 he has worked extensively with National Geographic, Discovery, WNET, CNN, TLC, PBS, A&E, Animal Planet and The History Channel. He has won five BMI awards, contributed music to two Grammy award-winning recordings, won a Teton award at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, and a Panda Award from Wildscreen. He is a graduate of the Peabody Conservatory of Music, has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera Orchestra, and nationally touring musicals, as well as the D.C.-based political satire group ‘The Capitol Steps’. From 1988 to 1996 he was the pianist for the late Eva Cassidy, whose posthumous recordings have sold over 12 million copies worldwide.