1998 Ph.D., University of Minnesota
1990 M.Mus., SUNY Binghamton
1986 B.A., LeMoyne College

2000 Community Engagement Project Grant from the American Composers Forum for a composition project in Philadelphia’s House of Corrections
2000 Contemporary Choral Composition Award, Roger Wagner Center
2000 Meet the Composer Grant

1999 CD, Occidentally on Purpose, includes original music and arrangements of traditional Balkan music with my band Gypsophilia
1999 Great Was the Miracle, for piano trio, recorded on the Naxos label
1999 Joined the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Artist Residency roster

1996 Out Under the Sky, for piano trio, recorded on the Naxos label

1993 New Grain, Old Fields, concert, Lancaster, PA, with the Eaken Piano Trio and the Wheatland Chorale

1992 The Stolen Child, for chorus and string trio, included in the inaugural broadcast of Public Radio International’s The First Art series on choral music in America

1991 The Wandering Klezmer, selected for the Charles Ives Center for American Music summer workshop

My current preoccupation, which I pursue with my band Gypsophilia, is to invent a music with the surface texture of folk music and the breadth and scope of chamber music. Combining Turkish, Greek, Balkan, Jewish and Celtic elements with Gregorian chant and European chamber techniques, we’ve created not a hodge-podge, but a cohesive new style, and discovered that audiences will follow you anywhere once you’ve gained their trust. Unusual scale systems, complex rhythms, different melodic contours, free improvisation—none of these things need be daunting to the listeners if our intention is to beguile and delight.