awards & honors
Peacemakers
Masterpiece Grant Indiana Arts Commission 2016
Officially endorsed Legacy Project Indiana Bicentennial Commission 2016
Multiple Special Event regional coverage Emmy®Awards:
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences 2016
Who's Who in America + Who's Who in the World
2002 – present
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
1990-2015
International Society of Contemporary Music
ISCM/League of Composers, First Prize, United States
Glossolalia for Chamber Ensemble, New York, 2000
University of Michigan School of Music Faculty Research Fund
Recording Grant, 1998-99
University of Michigan Office of the Vice-President for Research
Recording Grant, 1998-99
Michigan Society of Fellows
Fellow, Music Composition, 1996-99
G. Schirmer, Inc.
Spring is purple jewelry… Young American Art Song Competition Winner, 1996
Schweitzer Institute of Music / Sandpoint Festival
Fellow, Music Composition, Summer 1995
J. William Fulbright Program, Institute for International Education
Fellow, Music Composition, 1993-1994
Multiple Dean's Awards for Orchestral and Chamber Music, Travel Grants
Indiana University, 1987-93
Cole and Kate Porter Memorial Fellowship
Fellow, Music Composition, Indiana University, 1990-92
American Music Center
Margaret Fairbanks Jory Grant, 1992
Indiana Arts Commission/National Endowment for the Arts
Master Artist Fellow, Music Composition, 1990-91
Aspen Music School
Fellow, Music Composition Master Classes, 1989
American Music Center
Margaret Fairbanks Jory Grant, 1989
Groupe de Musique Experimentale de Bourges, France
Tragoïdia / Komoïdia
James Aikman, Armando Tranquilino
1er prix, Prix de la musique électroacoustique à programme, 16e Concours international de musique électroacoustique de Bourges 1988, Bourges (Cher, France)
Carmichael Competition
Classical Music Division, 1st Prize, 1987
Sonata No.1 for Violin and Piano performed by Joshua Bell and Charles Webb: WTIU/WFIU