Studied at Wichita State University , with Michael Dicker and Dennis Michel, with Harold Goltzer of the New York Phillarmonic and with Arthur Weisberg in the Yale School of Music. He was first bassoon in the Connecticut Philharmonic (1979-1980), in the Maracaibo Symphony Orchestra, Venezuela (1980 - 1983), in the Mexico City Opera, Mexico (1983-1985), in the Teatro S. Carlos-Lisbon (1985-1989), between 1990 and 1993 he played with the Limburgs Symphonie Orkest - Maastricht, the Ensemble Ad Libitum-Maastricht, the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, in the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest-Hilversum, and he was an invited artist of the Orlando Festival (Holland) 1992.

He was a prize winner in the National Collegiate Solo Competition (Denver ,1979), and in the Concours International de l'UFAM (Paris, 1991).

In 1993 he entered the Orquestra Nacional do Porto where he now plays assitant principal bassoon. Since 1995 he is a professor of bassoon and chamber music of the Conservatório de Música do Porto and in the Professional Music School of Espinho. He was invited to tour with the Ensemble Ad Libitum-Maastricht (1994 e 1995), with the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia (1996) , and as a soloist in the Contemporary Music Festival of the C. Gulbenkian Foundation (1994) and Musica Viva Festival in Lisbon (1998).

He is co-founder of La Marmita.