He has taught
Yiddish Music at
Hebrew College, the New England Conservatory, and
Wesleyan University, and has lectured extensively on the subject in the US, Canada, and Europe. He has also designed numerous Yiddish culture exhibits for the Yiddish Book Center, where he served as Vice President for Education. His essays on klezmer music have been published by the University of California Press, the University of Pennsylvania Press, the University of Scranton Press, the University Press of America, and Hips Road. He is currently an instructor in
jazz and contemporary
improvisation at the
New England Conservatory in
Boston. He is musical director for
Eternal Echoes, violinist Itzhak Perlman's Sony recording and international touring project featuring cantor Yitzkhak Meir Helfgot, and ''In The Fiddler's House'', a klezmer music video, recording, and touring project. He served as musical director and arranger for Joel Grey's
Borshtcapades ’94, and was artistic director for
A Taste of Passover and
A Taste of Chanukah, PBS and PRI concert productions that featured Theodore Bikel, recorded live at New England Conservatory and broadcast nationally. He was a consultant, arranger, and featured performer on ''To Life! America Celebrates Israel's 50th'', broadcast internationally by CBS. In December 2002, he conducted the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a special holiday program also featuring the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He has produced numerous recordings, including ten by the Klezmer Conservatory Band. ==Honors and awards==