Freelance composer and arranger for recordings, musical commercials and television industrial films. As a teenager, he began working as a pianist in clubs. He later worked with Bobby Darin, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, Liza Minnelli, and Clay Aiken, and he provided the string orchestrations for a number of records, including the John Lennon album "Imagine". He also did arranging for Doc Severinsen and the NBC Orchestra on "The Tonight Show".