Awards & Honors

Texas Composers Competition

Winner (2008, Regional)

Renée B. Fisher Composer Awards

Winner (2007, International)

Composers in Red Sneakers Young Composers Competition

Third Place (2006, National)

National Association of Composers Texas Composition Competition

Winner (2006, Regional)

National Federation of Music Clubs Emil and Ruth Beyer Composition Awards

Second Place: Chamber Music (2005, National)

Mu Phi Epsilon Composition Contest

Winner: Postgraduate Division, Large & Short Work Categories (2005, National)

SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission

Regional Winner (2005)

National Association of Composers (NACUSA) Young Composers Competition

First Prize (2004, National)

Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Student Composers Contest

Winner (2004 & 2005)

Tampa Bay Composers' Forum Prize for Excellence in Chamber Music Composition

Second Prize (2004, International)

Olga and Paul Menn Foundation Prize for Original Music Composition

Winner (2003)

Mu Phi Epsilon Musicological Research Contest Award

Paper: "Tant Que Vivray: A Comparative Analysis of Three Mid-Sixteenth

Century Intabulations of a Popular Chanson"

(2008)

Ruth Dean Morris Scholarship

For graduate work in Composition & Theory.

(2008)

ASCAPLUS Award

(2005-2008)

Society of Composers, Inc. Journal of Music Scores

"Hibakusha" selected for publication in volume 40 of the SCI Journal of Music Scores

(2007; pub. 2008)

Frans Waltman's Young Professionals Site

Selected for inclusion on a site of promising young composers

by Musicologist Frans Walmans

(2007)

Bettylou Scandling Hubin Scholarship for Music Technology

from Mu Phi Epsilon

(2007)

Mu Phi Epsilon Grant-in-Aid

Grant for the Premiere and/or Recording of

"Dulce et Decorum Est"

(2007)

Mu Phi Epsilon Musicological Research Contest Award

Paper: "Finding Gustav Mahler:

An Examination of Psychoanalytic Studies of Gustav Mahler"

(2006)

ACME Membership

For Mu Phi Epsilon members who are

"...widely known and acclaimed in their field of musical endeavor."

(2005)

Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter Grant

For Graduate Work in Composition (2004)

Lillian Harlan Ramage Grant

For Graduate Study in Composition (2004)

Mu Phi Epsilon Cleveland Heights Alumni Scholarship

For outstanding achievement (2004)

Phi Beta Kappa

Inducted June 9, 2003

Herman Dunlap Smith Scholarship

University of Chicago (2002)