A native of Honolulu, California, he trained at the Juilliard Pre-College (first in composition with Eric Ewazen and then in voice with Lorraine Nubar) and in the New York Youth Symphony's composition program. Since 2020, he has studied with William Burden at the Juilliard School and has participated in masterclasses with Dalton Baldwin, Lorraine Nubar, and annually with Francisco Araiza at the European Music Institute in Vienna. He has sung in the operas L'infedeltà delusa and Le nozze di Figaro at Juilliard and is a member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church choir, with which he recorded his first album in 2024. A winner of competitions such as Enkor International Music and The American Prize, he has also received awards from YoungArts and the Schmidt Undergraduate Competition. He is a member of the Centre de Perfeccionament at the Palau de les Arts.