My early career was in politics and public policy. I worked in the U.S. Senate and the Florida Governor’s office, helped shape federal human genome mapping and biotechnology policy in the Senate and at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, ran for Congress and ended my public policy career at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where I was Director of State and Local Relations and senior advisor to the Administrator under President Clinton.
But I also continued to fly, write, play, perform publicly and compose. After leaving politics, I stayed in Washington and concentrated on music. My pieces were performed in concert by the Congressional Chorus of Washington DC, the Orlando Chorale, the Florida Orchestra Brass Quintet, the University of Maryland Percussion Ensemble, the St. Petersburg Opera Chamber Ensemble, and numerous university, church and community choirs, soloists and instrumentalists. One Land: An American Tapestry, commissioned to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Congressional Chorus, premiered at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.