He studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and at Columbia and the Juilliard School of Music in New York where his mentors included the late Roger Sessions and Elliott Carter, who is still composing and will celebrate his 100th birthday next month.

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His sessions on the pads with uncle and trainer Roger Mayweather were breathtaking.

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