2000:

Associate Professor at Academy of Arts, Tirana, ALBANIA in composition and ethnomusicology.

1996:

Postdoctoral studies in the Department of Musical Studies, University of Athens, GREECE.

1994-1995:

Postgraduate study in composition under the guidance of Prof. Wolfgang Hufschmidt in Folkwang Hochschule, Essen, GERMANY.

1994:

Doctor in ethnomusicology at Academy of Arts, Tirana, ALBANIA.

1983-1987:

University Diploma on Composition directed by Prof. Kozma Lara.

1978-1982:

Violin and musical theory studies at the “Tefta Tashko Koço” school of music, Korçë.

2010:

Member of the National Council of Intangible Cultural Heritage-KKTKSH, Ministry of Culture.

2005-2008:

Member of National Council of Archive-KLA, General Directory of Archive.

2003-2007:

Member of scientific council of Institute of Folk Culture, Academy of Sciences.

2001-present:

Director of the Dept for Cultural Heritage in the Ministry of Culture of Albania.

1997-1999:

General Director at the National Opera and Balley Theatre-Tirana.

1991-present:

Prof. at Faculty of Music, Academy of Arts, Tirana. Course taught: (1) Ethnomusicology (2) Introduction to Albanian Ethnomusicology issues and (3) Composition.

1988-1991:

Music director at the cultural palace “Naim Frashëri” in Përmet.

Member of the bord of the Art-Culture at the SOROS foundation.

1999-present:

Member of IOF (The international organization of folk art), Austri.

1998-present:

Member of SEM (the society for ethnomusicology), USA.

1997-present:

Member of GEMA-Germany.

1997:

Founder of international competition “Ton de Leeuw” for new music.Tirana.

1995:

Founder of Albanian section of “The Rilm Abstract Literature of Music”. New York.

1995-present:

President of the “Albanian Music Council”, member of International Music Council. (IMC)

1993:

Founder of association “The New Albanian Music”, member of “European Conference of Promoters of New Music”.

2010:

"Honorary fellow of the city of Vlora", from Vlora Municipality.

2003:

"Honorary fellow of the Gjirokastra region", from the region council of Gjirokastra.

2000-2001:

Artistic Director of the  “Maratona of folk songs” in Tv KLAN.

1999-present:

Collaborator of the “PAYE”-England.

1998:

Supervisor on the book bibliography “Music in Albania”.

1997-present:

Supervisor in the production on traditional music documentary films for Albanian television.

1996-present:

Collaborator of radio programs on Albanian traditional music.

1994,1995:

Collaborator of the “Callaway International Resource Centre for Music Education” (CIRCME) Australia.

1993-present:

Collaborator of the Albanian newspaper “Drita”, literature magazine, in charge of the music review and of articles on Albanian musical issues.

Participant in the congress “Cultural diversity and fight against racism and ksenofobia”, Athens, Greece.

2001:

Participant at the international music competition for composers “Dimitri Mitropoulos”. Athens 2001.

1999:

Lector at the “First international meeting of folk polyphony”, Delvinaq-Greece, 6-9 August 1999

1999:

Participant at the “Musica Nova”, Sofia-Bulgaria.

1998:

Participant at the European conference of the “Promoters of New Music”, Schwaz / Tirol-Austria, 29-31 August 1998.

1998:

Participant at the “Reydale festival 98”, July, England.

1998:

Participant at the music scientific conference “Music analysis and cognitive research on music tradition”. Rome-Italy, 28-30 May 1998.

1997:

Participant at the 4^th Mediterranean Music Conference”, May, Palermo- Italy.

1995:

Participant and lector at the “Interbalkanian Congress of Music”. Thesaloniki, Greece.

1992,1994:

Participant at the “International Composers Workshop”, Amsterdam-Sofia. Composition lessons directed by Ton De Leeuw, Joji Youasa, Boris Christof.

1992:

Has delivered lectures and presented papers in the “First Balkanian Congress of Music”. Delphi, Greece etc.