His elementary education was received at Western Junior School and secondary education at The Government High School. At the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus) he was president of The Bahamian Students Association, sang with the University Singers, and was one of the regularly scheduled organists at the University Chapel.  He was tutored in orchestration as a private student of Nancy Patterson-Strelau at the University of Miami, Florida, and studied orchestral conducting as a private student of Harold Glickman of New York City.