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Recent Awards



2011 McKnight Foundation Composer Fellowship
2010 Vincent Brown Silliman Choral Anthem Competition - First Prize:  We Remember Them
2009 Athena Festival Almquist Award - First and Second Prizes:  The Journey and Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs
American Composer Forum - Encore Grant (with Kansas City Chorale and Phoenix Chorale) for Shelter This Candle
2008 Jerome Foundation - Composers Commissioning Program Grant for NEW WORK (TBA)
American Music Center - Composer Assitance Program Grant for Maji
Meet the Composer - MetLife Creative Connections Grant (with Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra) for Maji
2007 Meet the Composer - Creative Connections Grant (with Perfect Harmony Men's Chorus) for Tomorrow, God Willing
New England Foundation for the Arts Grant (with Women In Harmony) for They Have Freckles Everywhere
2006 Jerome Foundation - Performance Outreach Grant for Life Is Not a Garden
American Composers Forum - Subito Grant
American Music Center - Composer Assitance Program Grant for I'hare
Vincent Brown Silliman Award - Honorable Mention:  Where There Is Light In the Soul
2005 American Composers Forum - Subito Grant
New York Virtuoso Singers Choral Composition Competition - Honorable Mention:  Climb
2004 Jerome Foundation - Composers Commissioning Program Grant for Life Is Not a Garden
2002 Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize:  Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm
Waging Peace through Singing Project - Highest Honors:  Praise Wet Snow Falling Early
2001 Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest - First Prize:  Finally On My Way To Yes
New York State Council on the Arts - Community Arts Partnership Decentralization Grant (with Women's Works) for I Write This Poem Out of Darkness
Euphonia! Vocal Composition Competition - First Prize:  If You Can Walk You Can Dance
National Endowment for the Arts - Creation and Presentation Grant (with Syracuse Society for New Music) for My Aunt Gives Me a Clarinet Lesson
Songwriters Association of Washington Mid-Atlantic Song Contest - Finalist:  Being Who You Are
Meet the Composer Grant
2000 KidSing 2000 Composer's Competition - First Prize:  Being Who You Are
Brookline Chorus Composition Competition - First Prize:  Spring Revels
John Lennon Songwriting Contest - Honorable Mention:  Being Who You Are
Diana Barnhart American Song Competition - Honorable Mention:  So Many Corners
New York State Council on the Arts - Community Arts Partnership Project Grant for Finally On My Way To Yes
1993-2009 ASCAP Standard Awards
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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