Recipient of the scholarships of Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, among others. He composed the symphonyc poem "The Selfish Giant", Violin and cello concertos, the opera "Rasputin" wich was premiered by NYC Opera in 1988 and produced in Moscow in 2008-09. He is in Peru writing his new opera, based on August Strindberg's "The Ghost Sonata").