 His conducting includes performances of Boulez' "Improvisations sur Malarmé" for the Contemporary Chamber Players at the University of Chicago and Gounod's "Faust" at Illinois State University.He was a founding member of CUBE (1987-2013), the Chicago-based chamber ensemble specializing in the performance of new music.With the CUBE ensemble he performed as pianist in a wide variety of repertoire and conducted the ensemble in world premieres of William Ferris "An Eden Garden", Sebastian Huydt's "Three Serious Songs", and Russ Grazier's "Leaving, Arriving", among other works.