 Alburger is also the editor-publisher of "21st-Century Music Journal", which he founded in 1994 as "20th-Century Music".Alburger studied composition with Gerald Levinson and Joan Panetti at Swarthmore College; Jules Langert at Dominican University of California; and Roland Jackson, Thomas Flaherty, and Christopher Yavelow at Claremont Graduate University, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in Musicology in 1996.He also studied privately thereafter with Terry Riley.