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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 <br />