He has worked with numerous contemporary music specialists including most recently Ensemble Apparat, Ensemble Dal Niente, Amanda DeBoer Bartlett, Liam Hockley, Mabel Kwan, and Samuel Stoll. He is an active concert organizer and arts presenter, and is the founder, director, and editor of FOCI Arts, a contemporary arts organization and online periodical. He studied at the College of Charleston (2002-06) and the University of Huddersfield (2008-12). His principle teachers include Quentin Baxter, Aaron Cassidy, and Steven Kazuo Takasugi. He lives in New Orleans.