Born in Alexandria  Louisiana USA  1958 After earning a BA in Church Music and a BMus in Composition  moved to Europe in 1982 There he studied composition with Bulgarian composer Bojidar Dimov in Cologne  musicology and phonetics at the Rheinische Friedrichs Wilhelms University in Bonn  and earned a MMus (with Distinction) in Composing for New Media at London College of Music and Media (2002)