Ph.D., M.F.A., Princeton University Department of Music; B.A., Williams College. Pianist, composer, and collegium director with an extensive record as music educator, keyboard artist, internationally published musicologist, ethnomusicologist, and world music specialist. Public lectures, seminars, and related teaching as invited speaker at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NYC), Smithsonian Institution, and Dumbarton Oaks Research Center (Trustees for Harvard University / Washington, DC), and the Moscow Conservatory. He is recipient of prestigious awards as musician and leading scholar of global music (research and performance) from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Martha B. Rockefeller Fund for Music, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), Fulbright-Hays, and the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).

His published work includes contributions to The Study of Medieval Chant: Paths and Bridges, East and West / Essays in Honor of Kenneth Levy (Princeton University / Rochester, NY, 2001); Monumenta Musicae Byzantinae (2 volumes, The Hague, 2000); Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York, 1987-90); and Russian Theoretical Thought in Music (Ann Arbor, 1983 / recently reprinted by The University of Rochester Press, 2009).

He has taught at the Westminster Conservatory and the Westminster College of the Arts in Princeton and is active as a faculty artist and pianist at The Music Place, the private music studio he established with Angelina Shapoval in Kingston, NJ in 1999. His students regularly receive honors and high honors recognition for achievement in piano and related musical studies by the New Jersey Music Teachers Association, the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (London, UK), the Royal Conservatory of Music (Canada) and other prominent organizations that recognize young talents in performance and academic musicianship.