Career

• Scholarship to The Royal Academy of Music Studies Composition, Orchestration, Conducting, Piano, Organ

• BBC Classical Music Reviewer

• York University, England. BA Hons. Music

• York University & The National Film School - MA Film Music and the Visual Arts

• The first student of film music composition at the Film School.
  Graduates from The National Film School having completed 23 student film scores and studies production, direction, sound, cinematography, editing. 

• Becomes with two fellow students the first graduates of The National Film School to win the Oscar for "The Dollar Bottom" in the best short film category. 

• The Royal Academy of Music confers the degree of ARAM

• Elected First Chair of Music at The National Film and Television School of Great Britain 

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu confers Honorary Ph.D. at The University of the Western Cape

• The Royal Academy of Music confers the degree of FRAM