Studied at Berklee College of Music and Indiana University, as well as
Rotterdam, Netherlands and Cologne, Germany, having received
international scholar grants for study.
Left a teaching position at Indiana University to pursue film scoring
in Los Angeles.
Worked with Hans Zimmer on Black Hawk Down, and Spirit.
Recipient of numerous national and international composition awards
including Midwest Composers Symposium, ASCAP/Morton Gould Young
Composer Awards (twice), ISCM Cultural Foundation of Warsaw, Deutscher
Akademischer Austauschungdienst Bureau, Polish National Radio
Orchestra, and Society of Composers Inc.