Awards, Prizes: Winner, Cleveland Orchestra Composition Contest National Endowment for the Arts Composer Fellowship Bernard and Rose Sernoffsky Prize Howard Hanson Prize 31 ASCAP Standard Composer Awards: American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1979 to 2013) UTSA Faculty Research Award (1984) Two Kentucky Arts Council Artist Awards State of Kentucky Al Smith Award for Excellence in Composition Bingham Fellow for Excellence in Teaching (1993-present) Chosen for Society of Composers Piano CD (2006) Composer of Original Motion Picture Soundtrack for Euphoria, Winner of Gold Award for Documentary, Houston Film Festival www.theeuporiaproject.com (2008) Transylvania University Faculty Development Grants for travel to China, India, Senegal and Northern Ireland
Selected Commissions: Bertram Turetzky, contrabass, San Diego; Krefting Piano Company, Cincinnati; Owensboro Symphony Orchestra, Kentucky; Jefferson Duo (flute and harp), Lexington Quadrant Ensemble (flute, clarinet, cello, piano), Lexington The Trio (saxophones), NYC Kentucky Music Teachers’ Association Commissioned Composer 1988 and 2014 Gregory Partain, piano, Lexington Skip Gray, tuba, University of Kentucky Victoria Neve, piano, San Francisco State University The Bizet Trio, University of Kentucky The Lexington Guitar Trio Lee Boot, director, Euphoria (original soundtrack) Denine LeBlanc, Piano professor, University of Louisville
You may see a performance of my Sunlight Dialogues for Flute and Percussion, published by Southern Music, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZSOZWRSa9k