
- 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
- 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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