• EDUCATION: Doctor of Musical Arts, Columbia University, 1992. Dissertation: Views of Time (score) Views of Time: An Analytical and Philosophical Commentary (Thesis)
• Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1986. Thesis: Rhapsody on a Jasmine Flower (score)
• Bachelor of Music, Manhattan School of Music, 1983.Thesis: Jovian Crepuscule, for Orchestra.
• Oak Ridge High School, graduated 1973.
• Music Composition with Mario Davidovsky, George Edwards, Jack Beeson, Chou Wen-Chung, Steven Mackey and Elias Tanenbaum.
• Additional work with Leon Kirchner and Leonard Bernstein (Tanglewood, 1985).
• Electronic Music with Mario Davidovsky, Elias Tanenbaum and Arthur Krieger.
• Orchestration with Giampaolo Bracali and George Edwards. Theory with Ludmilla Ulehla, Ursula Mamlok, Martha Hyde, Susan Blaustein, Jacques Monod, Mark Zuckerman, Severine Neff and Patricia Carpenter.
• Piano with Celeste Varagona, Martha Pestalozzi and Dalmo Carra.
• Conducting with Arthur Weisberg and George Manahan.
• Languages: Reading knowledge of German and French, speaking knowledge of Chinese.
• CREDITS & CITATIONS Scholarship, Columbia University, 1990-92. Fellow in Music Humanities, Columbia U., 1989 Schaefer, John. New Sounds: a Listener's Guide to New Music . New York, Harper & Row. 1987. Reviews of Album Asterism in Opus Magazine (1/86) and Keyboard Magazine (7/86). Fellow in Composition, Tanglewood, 1985. Assistantship in Theory/Ear Training, Columbia, 1984-85. Full Fellowship, Columbia University, 1983-85. Scholarship, Manhattan School of Music,1981-82.