He began studying the violin at the age of four and the viola at twelve, already integrating into various chamber music groups. He studied at the Eastman School of Music with Heidi Castleman and Martha Strongin Katz, continuing his studies at Rice University.

He then became a student of Karen Tuttle at the Juilliard School in New York, where he completed his advanced diploma. In 2000, he received a scholarship to study at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Thomas Riebl and Veronika Hagen, with whom he also worked as an assistant professor.

He has also studied chamber music with members of the Hagen, Cleveland, Juilliard, Mendelssohn, and Takacs quartets, and has participated in workshops led by Ferenc Rados, András Schiff, Sylvia Rosenberg, Victoria Chiang, and Diemut Poppen.

He has performed in numerous recitals throughout Europe and the United States and has collaborated with artists such as Anthony Marwood, Charlie Neidich, and Ian Swenson, as well as the Kuss, Miró, and Zemlinsky quartets, and the Kandinsky Trio.

He has been invited to festivals such as Ravinia, Taos, Aspen, and the Open Chamber Music at the International Musicians Seminar in England.

He was a member of the Camerata Salzburg and has collaborated as main viola in the Juilliard Symphony and the New Juilliard Ensemble.

Since the spring of 2002, he has been a member of the Quartet Casals.