Awards and Prizes

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

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

Composer/Librettist Grant, National Endowment for the Arts, 1976

Creative Artist Public Service (CAPS) Grant, New York State Council of the Arts, 1976

Meet the Composer Awards, Annual since 1976

Composer Assistance Award, American Music Center, 1975