I completed my education at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1978 when I received a doctorate in music composition. I then served as a resident fellow at the following institutions: (1) Stiftelsen EMS Stockolm, Sweden; (2) Colgate University, Hamilton, NY; (3) Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada; (4) Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel; (5) Ghent State University, Ghent, Belgium; and (6) Audio-Digital Laboratories, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
I am a specialist in the electroacoustic media. Beginning in 1998, my works appeared on the CDs Electroshock Presents: Electroacoustic Music, Volumes II, V, VII and VIII in Moscow, Russia. In 2014, a two-CD collection of my works appeared on Out of Kilter: Digital, Mixed Media and Text-Sound Compositions by Robin Julian Heifetz, Soundcarrier Music Network, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
I have served an an adjunct music professor at Antelope Valley College in Lancaster, California since 2006.
