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Composer and pianist, editor and writer, teacher and scholar, photographer

Recording artist and award-winning composer and columnist.

Currently fulltime Managing Editor and writer for Brunswick Review, a global magazine for corporate leadership, published by Brunswick Group; adjunct faculty at The College of New Jersey; and board member of the Composers Guild of New Jersey.

Ph.D. in Music Composition from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, student of Robert Moevs, Charles Wuorinen and Richard Chrisman; published music theorist (including “John Lennon’s ‘Revolution 9’”).

Diploma, the Conservatoire américain de Fontainebleau, France.

B.A., M.A. in Piano and Music Composition, Trenton State College (now The College of NJ), Ewing, NJ, student of Laurence Taylor.

Photographer.

Formerly, private piano teacher; columnist for TheStreet (“For What It’s Worth”) the Asbury Park Press (“Music Notes”), the Times of Trenton and the Franklin News-Record (“Wilkinson’s Edge”); producer of new music events including Music of Invention series in Asbury Park (2004-14), and Trenton Avant Garde Festival’s George Antheil Project (1995-99).

Read my curriculum vitae or visit my Academia.edu page