• Fulbright Scholar - fellowship to New Zealand
  

• Continental Harmony Awards:
  
  • Underground Movements, featuring River North Dance Company, the Chicago Children's Choir, and other Chicago musicians (premiere November 2006 at Millennium Park
    
  • Suite Mississippi, a symphonic jazz piece for the state of Mississippi, celebrating its contribution to the development of jazz as a child's legacy
    
  • Glacier Blue, a concerto for violin and big band, commissioned as the millennium piece for the state of Alaska
    

• Network for New Music's "Sonia Songs" commission, a collaboration with poet Sonia Sanchez: (for you), beijing, and sonia's blues - a four movement suite using Sonia's blues haiku

• (Magic Shmagic) No Flutes Allowed for the Kimmel center's Mozart: Reloaded concert

• Community Partners residency with the Grammy All Star High School Jazz Band: Columbier Variations, a three movement suite for jazz ensemble

• Not So Fast, American Composers Forum Salon Commission for the string trio, Time for Three
  

• New Music Delaware 2000 Award for woodwind quintet, Nepenthe

• American Music Center (two awards)
  

• Meet the Composer (three awards)
  

• Composer/Choreographer Grant (Philadelphia Dance Alliance & American Composers Forum)
  

• National Endowment for the Arts

• Rockefeller Foundation
  

• Pew Charitable Trust
  

• Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (three awards)
  

• American Cultural Specialist designation awarded by the United States Information Agency

• Queen Elizabeth Arts Council
  

• New Zealand Jazz Foundation
  

• UArts Faculty Development Grant for collaboration with film maker Wendy Weinberg
  

• UArts Outstanding Alumni Award

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