He remained with Dr. Kuprevicious for 9 years. When Kuprevicious became the head of the piano department at Cleveland State University, Dennis followed and also majored in musical theory with Dr. Heywood Alexander.
It was during college that Dennis began playing in many local rock bands including This, The Mirrors (with Chris Cuda on guitar) Rhapsody (with Gary Braden, Ron Puzzitiello, Robby Bell and Gus Oswald)and Lazar. This was also when he began experimenting with original music and over the next few years he would score much success in the field of writing.
At the age of 24 Dennis signed his first recording
contract with Scotti Bros. / CBS records for the album
“Beau Coup” for which Dennis wrote all songs
and lyrics. Two years later after struggling with the
record label, Dennis and Beau Coup signed another recording
contract with Amherst / A&M records. It was under
this label that “Beau Coup” released the
album
Lorain - Cleveland - Sunday afternoons from 1:00
PM - 3:00 PM and on Sunday mornings from 9:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M.
on "F.M. 101.5 WXGR" New Hampshire. During the program Dennis gives an in-depth view of the lives and music of the greatest composers,
conductors and musicians of all time; including Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Copland, Stravinsky,
that has raised hundred's of thousands of dollars for the poor children of Northeastern Ohio over the last several years.
When Dennis performs, people from all over Northeastern Ohio come to hear him play and during the evening, he creates a soiree’ salon type atmosphere
and takes the crowd through 30 decades of music,