He has earned eight Emmy nominations for his work in television. A member of BMI, he has received eight BMI TV/Film Awards, and has conducted and orchestrated for such films as "King Kong," "Die Hard," "Lethal Weapon," and "Spider-Man 3" and for composers such as James Newton Howard, Michael Kamen, Christopher Young, Alan Silvestri, James Horner, Gabriel Yared, Jan Kaczmarek, Marc Shaiman, Don Davis, Shirley Walker, Mark Watters, David Newman, Edward Shearmur, Richard Bellis, Theodore Shapiro, and Mark Isham. His mentors in Hollywood included Hugo Friedhofer, Earle Hagen and Paul Glass.