Awards & Prizes

Winner of the Brotastic Ensemble Call for Scores for Baby Blue Roses to be recorded in August 2016.

Winner of the Call for Solo Violin Works to be performed by Italian violinist Carmine Marcello Rizzi on his 2015 Australian tour for Meet Me in Srinagar.

Finalist for the 2014 Boathouse Cello Choir Composition Contest for Return to Giverny.

Finalist for the 2013 American Prize in Choral Composition.

Winner of the 2013 Spector Prize for Summer Suite.

Winner of Third Prize in the Third Millennium Ensemble's 2013 Composers Competition for Summer Suite.

Semi-Finalist for the 2013 American Prize in Chamber Music Composition.

Winner of the 2013 Director's Choice Award from Boston Metro Opera for Razumov.

Finalist for the 2012 American Prize in Choral Composition.

Winner of the 2012 Spector Prize for the First Suite from Razumov.

ChoralNet Composer of the Month for April 2012.

Winner of the Silver Platter Repertoire Award in March 2012 for The Tree.

Finalist for the 2011 Seghizzi International Choral Festival Composition Competition for The Tree.

Honorable Mention in the 2010 Pathways Contest for both Summer Suite for trumpet & string orchestra and The Far North Land: Passages for String Orchestra.

Honorable Mention in the 2010 Fusion Contest for The Far North: Passages for School Band.

An award from the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center provided partial funding for two performances of Scenes from Razumov at the Fresh Voices IX Festival of New and Used Operas in San Francisco in May 2009.

Commendation in the 2007 Heritage Singers Composers Competition for From the Odes of Solomon.

Finalist in the 2007 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition for Leo.

First Place in the 2006 Orpheus Music Composition Competition for Beneath the Apple Tree.

Awarded the Masterworks Prize by ERM Media in 2006 for On the Ground Where We Live.

Awarded the Masterworks Prize by ERM Media in 2005 for the First Suite from Razumov.

Finalist in the inaugural New Choral Music Competition at Briar Cliff University for The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan).

Recognized by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers with ASCAP Standard Awards annually since 2003.


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