Awards, Grants and Fellowships

Continental Harmony Awards:
- Underground Movements, featuring River North Dance Company, the Chicago Children's Choir, and other Chicago musicians (premiere November 2006 at Millennium Park
- Suite Mississippi, a symphonic jazz piece for the state of Mississippi, celebrating its contribution to the development of jazz as a child's legacy
- Glacier Blue, a concerto for violin and big band, commissioned as the millennium piece for the state of Alaska

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Franz Wright's The Hawk, for choir and orchestra, premiere Spring 2011 at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York

Forbidden Boundaries, music for another signature piece for River North Chicago Dance Company

American Composers Forum Film Composer Award, to score a documentary on poet Sonia Sanchez

Network for New Music's "Sonia Songs" commission, a collaboration with poet Sonia Sanchez: (for you), beijing, and sonia's blues – a four movement suite using Sonia's blues haiku

(Magic Shmagic) No Flutes Allowed for the Kimmel center's Mozart: Reloaded concert

Community Partners residency with the Grammy All Star High School Jazz Band: Columbier Variations, a three movement suite for jazz ensemble

Not So Fast, American Composers Forum Salon Commission for the string trio, Time for Three

Composer/Choreographer Grant (Philadelphia Dance Alliance & American Composers Forum)

American Cultural Specialist designation awarded by the United States Information Agency

UArts Faculty Development Grant for collaboration with film maker Wendy Weinberg