Private Piano Study 1974-75
with Lyle Mays

Downbeat Jazz Summer Camp, 1970
University of Illinois
Arranging study with Wes Hensel
Saxophone Study with Blue Lou Marini
Piano Study with Marion McPartland

Louisiana Tech Rome Italy 1973
Studies in Art, Painting
Italian
Western Civilization

San Jose State University 1985
Film Scoring with Dr. Dan Wyman

Protools Digidesign Certification, Digital Recording Software
with Bruce Tambling

John and Bruce recorded and composed many feature film
soundtracks together, and worked together with the Silicon Valley founders of Avid Digidesign Protools in their initial prototype of the "Audiomedia Card" that revolutionized the recording industry.

Album Production and songwriting
informal in the studio mentoring
with Narada Michael Walden,

John's Producer in a Production contract in 1980-81,
San Francisco. Narada was the most successful music producer of the 1980s and 90s with Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey and many others