He is a founding member of Montana Public Broadcasting (PBS), and currently a member of the Advisory Board of Classical KUSC Radio in Los Angeles, The Orange County School of the Arts, The Maestro Foundation, Fender Music Foundation and the GRAMMY Blue Ribbon Adjudication Committee. In 2011, he was appointed Chairman of the Board of USC Fisher Museum of Art in Los Angeles. He is listed in Who's Who in America, and was designated the 2001 Alumni of the Year from the College of Arts and Architecture at Penn State University. In 2007, he received the Amicus Poloniae Award from the Government of the Republic of Poland for outstanding achievement in promoting the Arts. Cleveland State University awarded him the 2008 Alumni of the Year from the College of Arts and Letters.