Festival. His principal teachers have been Raymond Prem grew up in his present home, Sitka. As a musician he has studied music at the Bruckner Konservatorium in Linz, Austria, at Oberlin Conservatory an at the Aspen Music ru of the Philharmonia Orchestra and Paul Welcomer of the San Francisco Symphony. He has worked as a free lance musician in the San Francisco Bay area playing with variou s groups in a wide range of musical style