Awards and Prizes
International Alliance for Women in Music 2008 Miriam Gideon Prize
Cube Contemporary Music Ensemble Commission, 2008
for "Mood Swing"
Alice M. Ditson Award, 2008
for CD "Chasing Time"
Take Dance Ensemble Commission, 2007
for "Untitled 1"
Fromm Foundation of Harvard University Commission , 2003
for the New York New Music Ensemble
Mary Flagler Cary Trust Commission, 2001
for the Bronx Arts Ensemble
Mary Flagler Cary Trust Recording Award, 2001
for CD Of Mere Being
Alice M. Ditson Award, 2001
for CD Of Mere Being
Aaron Copland Fund, 2001
for CD Of Mere Being
Sigma Alpha Iota Philanthropies and C.F. Peters Publishers
Composer Judge, 1999, including commissioning and publication of String Quartet No. 2
PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Awards
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1995, 1993
Music in the Mountains National Competition for Orchestral Music, 1993
including performance by Hudson Valley Philharmonic,
JoAnn Falletta, conductor
New Jersey Composers Guild Composition Competition, 1992
Including premiere by Chamber Symphony of Princeton,
Mark Laycock, Conductor
Vienna Modern Masters Second Annual Recording Award, 1991
Special Commendation
Meet the Composer Education Grant, 1990
Finalist, Kucyna International Composition Prize, 1988
Including premiere of String Quartet by Alea III,
Theodore Antoniou, Conductor
First Prize Hollybush Festival International Composition Competition, 1987
Including Premiere by New Jersey Symphony
Hugh Wolff, conductor
New York Foundation for the Arts Award, 1987
Award of Merit, International New Music Composers Competition, 1987
Composer in Residence, Chamber Music Conference and Composers Forum of the East,
Bennington College, August, 1986
Morse Grant, 1982-1983
Yale University (paid leave of absence)
American Composers Alliance Recording Award, 1981
MacDowell Colony Fellowships (Norlin Foundation Award)
Residencies, July 2000, July 1977
