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EDUCATION

1. New York University, Master of Fine Arts, Musical Theatre Writing Program, Inaugural Class, 1981-83 

  • Teachers included: Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein, John Weidman, Arthur Laurents, Harold Prince, Betty Comden & Adolph Green, Alfred Uhry, Robert Waldman and Robert Kalish 

2. American Conservatory of Music, Chicago, two years graduate study, 1979-1981

  • Two years private graduate level study in composition, orchestration, counterpoint and form and analysis with the late William Ferris, composer, founder and conductor of Chicago’s William Ferris Chorale

3. Chicago Conservatory of Music, Bachelor of Music, Major in Composition, Minor in Music Theory, 1975-1977

Additional: Two years studying music theory, orchestration and counterpoint with William Russo at Columbia College, Chicago; composition and theory with Joseph Reiser, 1973-1975

4. Chicago's Bowen High School, Class of 1972

5. Chicago's Joseph Warren Elementary School, Class of 1968