2003 MacArthur Fellow with a $500,000 "no strings attached" funds over
the next five years.
Associate Professor at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA,
where he has taught since 1991, and is also on the faculty of the
Boston Conservatory.
Ph.d in Music Composition from University of Pennsylvania where he
studied with George Crumb.
Studied with Mark Kopytman at the Jerusalem Rubin Academy.
In 2000, commissioned by German Helmuth Rilling for $10,000 to write a
Passion based on St. Mark to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the
death of Johann Sebastian Bach in 2000.