Awards, Honors, and Commissions

Orchestra of St. Lukes, New York
Commission for … to a thin edge, 2004

American Guild of Organists
Commission for Fleet, 2004

Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, The University of Southern California
Faculty Recognition Award for Consolation, 2003

Warebrook Contemporary Music Festival, Vermont
Guest Composer, 2002

Cleveland Chamber Symphony
Commission for Consolation, 2002

Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Oregon
Fellowship for the 2000 Festival and Symposium

American Academy of Arts and Letters
1999 Academy Award and Recording Grant

Deer Valley Institute and Festival, Utah
Composer-in-Residence, 1998

Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York / Italy
Fellowship at the 15th-C. Castello Civitella Ranieri,
Umbria, Italy, May-June, 1998

Ventura Chamber Music Festival
Guest Composer, 1998 Festival
Artistic Advisor, “Rising Stars” Program, 1998

Mid-American Center for Contemporary Music, Ohio
Guest Composer, 18th Annual Festival of Music and Art, 1997

Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Oregon
Fellowship for the 1997 Festival and Symposium

Colonial Symphony, New Jersey
Commission for Variations for Orchestra, 1996

Cultural Ministry of Venezuela
Guest Composer, 9th Latin American Festival of Music,
Caracas, 1995
Commission for Truccorchéstra, 1995

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
Fellowship, May-June, 1995

New World Symphony/Florida International University
Guest Composer, 1995 May in Miami Festival

16th International Forum of New Music, Mexico City
Guest Composer, 1994

Meet the Composer
Visiting Composer Grant for The Women’s Philharmonic premiere of
What is the sound of an angel’s voice…, 1994

Whitaker Foundation/The Women's Philharmonic
1993 Whitaker Commissioning Prize to commission
What is the sound of an angel’s voice…

Great Woods Forum, Massachusetts
Trucco for string quartet chosen as Standard 20th-C. Repertoire
for all Quartets in Residence, 1993

Ernest Bloch Music Festival, Oregon
Fellowship for the 1992 Festival and Symposium

North/South Consonance, New York
Commission for The Lost Mariner, 1992

American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers
ASCAP Awards, 1992, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04

Charles Ives Center for American Music
Guest Composer, 1991 Festival and Symposium, “The String Quartet in
America”

Los Angeles Arts Council
First Prize for Excellence in the Arts, 1991

The University of Southern California
Halsey Stevens Composition Prize, 1991

The University of Southern California
Hans J. Salter Award for Composition, 1987

Minnesota Opera/Opera America/NEA
Composer in Residence, New Music Theater Program, 1986
Commission for Occupying the Same Space (one-act opera), 1986

Minnesota Opera/Opera America/NEA
Composer in Residence, New Music Theater Program, 1985
Commission for A Song of Beginnings (one-act opera), 1985

Opera America/Playwrights, Unltd., San Francisco
Commission for Two Songs for Soprano and Baritone, 1984
Fellowship and Residency in San Francisco, October-November, 1984

Rotary International Foundation
Rotary International Foundation Scholar
Fellowship for International Study (Italy), 1982-83