Meet the Composer Awards 1996-99,00,02,05,06,08, 10,11
<br /> Award for Outstanding Achievement,American Composers Forum 1998
<br /> Helen Laird Tribute Award,Temple University 1998-99
<br /> First Prize,Nancy Van de Vate Prize for Orchestral Music 1996
<br /> Presidential Fellowship,Temple University 1996-2000
<br /> Heller Award for Excellence in Composition,Temple University 1999,2001
<br /> Winner,Award for Outstanding Musicianship and 1"Prize for Performance,Muhlenberg College 1982
<br /> Phi Beta Kappa,Muhlenberg College 1982
<br /> Summa Cum Lauda,Muhlenberg College 1982
<br /> RESIDENCIES
<br /> Lucas Artist Fellowship at Montalvo 2012
<br /> The Bellagio Center,Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship 2012
<br /> Civitella Ranieri Foundation Music Composition Fellowship 2012
<br /> The American Academy of Rome 2010
<br /> Oberpfalzer Kunstlerhaus in Schwandorf,Germany 2010
<br /> Yaddo(including the Aaron Copland Residency for an American Composer) 2005,2007,2008,2009,2011,2013
<br /> MacDowell Colony 2005,2009-10,2011
<br /> Valparaiso,Spain 2012
<br /> Djerassi Foundation 2009
<br /> Helene Wurlitzer Foundation,Taos,N.M. 2007,2013
<br /> Ucross Foundation 2005,2008
<br /> Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 2001-2012
<br /> The Tyrone Guthrie Centre,Ireland 2002
<br /> The Ragdale Foundation 2002,03,05,07,08,11
<br /> Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency Award,Nebraska City 2006
<br /> I-Park,Connecticut 2002
<br /> The Millay Colony 2003,2005
<br /> Blue Mountain Center 2003,2006
<br /> Banff Centre for the Arts 1997,1998
<br /> Atlantic Center for the Arts(with the Relache Ensemble) 1997
<br /> RECORDINGS/PUBLISHERS
<br /> - Works recorded on Crystal Records,Sony Classics,MSR Classics,Centaur Records,2L Label.Winter
<br /> 2012 release on Innova Label of The Golem Psalms cantata for baritone,chorus and orchestra
<br /> - Works published by Oxford University Press,International Opus,Jomar Press and Angelfire Press
<br /> SIGNIFICANT PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
<br /> -Awarded a Bellagio Center Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation,Feb/March 2012
<br /> -New CD Metamorphosis released on Innova Label,2012 with The Golem Psalms,cantata for baritone(Sanford Sylvan),
<br /> SATB chorus(The Mendelssohn Club)and orchestra(the augmented Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia).CD also
<br /> includes works by Jennifer Higdon and James Primosch.
<br /> -April 29,2012 Philadelphia premiere of a new cantata for double chorus and chamber orchestra,Tse Go La(At the
<br /> Threshold of this life),co-commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir with the Chamber
<br /> Orchestra of Philadelphia,and recipient of a Community Partners Grant from the American Composers Forum for
<br /> outreach sessions with the Tibetan community of Philadelphia and the Girlchoir on traditional Tibetan music and dance
<br /> with composition workshops
<br /> -May,2012 premiere of a new work for viola and piano,Convergence,commissioned and premiered by acclaimed violist
<br /> Barbara Westphal with pianist Christian Ruvolo in Lubeck,Germany at a concert dedicated to the celebration of the
<br /> German constitution
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