From Winnipeg Manitoba. In Toronto studied piano with Boris Berlin, Evelyn Lindsey, Court Stone and Mona Bates.

Numerous scholarships enabled him to study at the Academy Of Music, Vienna Austria. Graduated with Master and Bachelor Of Music Degrees in Performance and Pedagogy.

Numerous students are performers, recording artists, and teachers, graduating from Julliard, Royal College (UK), Western, Queens, U of T, and Glenn Gould Studio. ORMTA A and B level winners.

Auditioner, Clinician, Festival Adjudicator and Lecturer.