- As a chamber musician he performed with ensembles as the Vermeer, Lenox, and Claremont string quartets and championed Gunther Schuller's Third Stream musical ethos with the Modern Jazz Quartet. He frequently appeared as a guest violist at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center from 1972 until 1989.
- Was a fellow at Tanglewood - where he worked with musicians such as Elliott Carter, Leon Kirchner, Gunther Schuller, John Cage, and Aaron Copland.
- Served on faculty and as the director of chamber music of the New England Conservatory from 1973 to 1979. From 1990 to 1998, he served as advisor to the Conservatory's then-president Laurence Lesser.
- Attended the Curtis Institute of Music on a scholarship.
- Among those whose distinguished careers he nurtured are violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and the Borromeo Quartet.
- Has a sister Nola.
- Has two daughters Erika and Elizabeth.
- He directed chamber music programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York and the Spoleto Festivals in South Carolina and Italy.
- For more than 25 years, he was instrumental in the construction and programming of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
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