Concert compositions performed by: Arditti Quartet, Borromeo String Quartet, Penderecki Quartet, Xtet, Chroma Quartet, Gregg Smith Singers in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, New York, Brussels, Krislund Norway, Casalmaggiore, Italy.
Albany Records CD - California Composers, Arditti Quartet recorded Aspen Quartet
Won:
- Borromeo String Quartet Contest, New York - Brandenburg Chamber Music Prize in Composition and commission - Aaron Copland Award - Lee Ettelson Award from Composers Inc.
- Commission sponsored by the S. Mark Taper Foundation - AMC Composers Assistance Grants (4)
- Fellowship at the Ernest Bloch Festival in Oregon (Chinary Ung)
- two Fellowships at the Aspen Institute for Advanced Compositional Studies - (Jacob Druckman and Bernard Rands)
Commercial compositions used in trailers for: X-Men 3: The Last Stand, The Closer, Herbie Fully Loaded, Aliens in the Attic, Sleeping Beauty, Lions for Lambs, Bridget Jones Diary, many others.
Taught composition, electronic music and music theory at: UC Santa Barbara,
UCLA, El Camino College; Scripps College Claremont; CSU Long Beach and CSU LA.
Served as President of the Independent Composers Association.
Education - Ph.D. in Music Composition and Theory from the UCLA - Dissertation: ?Why Does Stravinsky Always Sound Like Stravinsky? Serial Stravinsky and Style Analysis?
- NEH Fellowship, at the Schoenberg Institute under Leonard Stein
