Brad began piano studies at an early age with his grandmother in Virginia. For nine summers, he attended Brevard Music Center where he studied primarily with Marilyn Neeley and won the concerto competition twice. In New York City, he studied with German Diez, a protégé of Claudio Arrau and currently studies with Erna Gulabyan and Gwendolyn Mok. Other teachers have included Ken Huber, Diedre Davis, Ray Luck and Corky Sablinsky. He has performed in master classes with Claude Frank, Peter Frankl, Mischa Dichter, Joseph Bloch, and Karl Ulrich Schnabel, among others. He has won prizes in the New York City International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, the WIPAC Competition, and the Amateur Pianists International Competition in Colorado; recently he was a finalist in the 2025 Oberlin International Adult Amateur Piano Competition. He has an A.B. in classical languages from Hampden-Sydney College, an M.D. from University of Virginia and a J.D. from New York University.