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A graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Teachers College, Columbia University. He has served as an adjunct faculty member of Hofstra University, Manhattanville College, and Teachers College of Columbia University. In addition, he has, in the past forty years, taught instrumental and choral music in several New Jersey and New York school systems. He recently retired as District Coordinator of Music for the Scarsdale, N.Y. public schools, one of the nation's premier educational districts. Choral groups under his direction have performed with distinction at contests and at other award winning occasions. They have performed in Carnegie Hall and Madison Square Garden, as well as on radio and television. His organizations have been invited to sing at New Jersey and New York State School Music Association conventions, divisional meetings of the Music Educators National Conference, and the first American Choral Directors Association National Conference. Offices Held - Past President of Bergen, Nassau, and Westchester County Music Educators Associations. Former Vice President of Choirs for New York State School Music Association, former State Chairman of Junior High School Music of the New York State School Music Association. Past member of several MENC committees. Founding member and first New York State President of the American Choral Directors Association. He is well known as a clinician, conductor, and choral literature specialist, and has functioned in these various capacities at over 300 workshops in some 30 states. He is one of the nation's most prolific and respected choral editors and arrangers, and has over 2000 publications in print. In addition, he is co-author of Growing With Music, a basic music series (K-8), co-author of Functional Lessons in Singing, a class voice textbook, and author of the Choral Conductors Handbook. His broad ranging knowledge of the music education field and his acknowledged expertise in matters choral make him an invaluable clinician. To purchase a piece click on the title.
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