AWARDS and RESIDENCIES

- American Composers Forum Encore! Grant, 2009
- New England Philharmonic Call for Scores: Honorable Mention, 2009
- String Orchestra of New York Composition Competition: Winner, 2008
- Northridge Composition Prize: Winner, 2008
- MacDowell Colony: Resident, 2007
- Aaron Copland Award: Alternate, 2006
- San Francisco Choral Artists: New Voices Competition, First Prize, 2006
- ASCAP: Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, 2002, 2003, & 2005
- American Univ. Saxophone Symposium Composition Contest: Honorable Mention, 2004
- TransforMusic International Competition for Composers: Prizewinner, 2004
- Austin Peay State University: Young Composer's Competition, Second Prize, 2004
- CBDNA/ASCAP: Frederick Fennel competition, Honorable Mention, 2004
- Collage New Music Ensemble, Composer-in-Residence, 2003–2004
- Washington International Competition: Second Place, 2000
- Delius Competition: Grand Prize, 2000
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Scholarship, studies with Bruce Adolphe, 1995


RECORDINGS & PUBLICATIONS

Arrangements for Polkastra (2009):
- The Hora! The Hora!
- Strauss: Light as a Feather
- Ludwig van Polka
- Smetana: Allegro a la Polka
violin, trumpet, horn, contrabassoon, accordion & percussion
Recorded by Polkastra on their album Apolkalypse Now! (Ancalagon Records ANC135)

Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin (Arrangements) (2007)
Published by Schott Music (violin, cello and piano, ED 20217)
Published by Schott Music (violin and piano, VLB126)

Shabu Shabu (2002)
Published by Tenuto Publications (2 flutes, 494-02815)
Published by Tenuto Publications (flute and clarinet, 494-02816)

V'Shamru (2002) ∙ voice and piano
Published by Transcontinental Music Publications in Music for Shabbat, Volume III (993280)

Dal Dosai: Sonata for Flute and Piano (2001) ∙ flute and piano
Published by Tenuto Publications (494-02755)
Recorded by Thomas Robertello and Winston Choi on Gypsy Wheel (Crystal CD712)
Recorded by Paul Lustig Dunkel and Peter Basquin on Live in Recital (MSR Classics 1198)


TEACHING

- Hofstra University, Adjunct Assistant Professor, 2005–2008
- Concordia Conservatory (Bronxville, NY), Piano Faculty and Composer, 2005–
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Affiliated Artist, 2002–2004
- Boston University, Teaching Associate & Online Facilitator, School of Music, 2005-2007
- Private Students, Master Classes, & Talks, California State University, Northridge: Composers' Forum, 2009. University of Nevada, Las Vegas: Notation Workshops & Composers' Forum, 2009 Boston University: Composers' Forum Series, 2008. Private composition students: High School and College-level, 2002–2008. Concordia Conservatory: ASCAP Foundation Lecture, 2008. Washington University in St. Louis: Music Lecture Series, Master Classes, 2005. Boston University Tanglewood Institute: Master Class, 2002


COMMISSIONS

Concordia Conservatory, ASCAP Foundation, Schott Music, Polygraph Lounge, Stella Trio, Austin Chapter of Hadassah, Jon Russo (with support from the City of Loudon, Virginia), Collage New Music (with support from the Harvard Musical Association), New York Youth Symphony, Celebrity Series of Boston, Polkastra, Robert Burkhart, Kristina Reiko Cooper, Patrick Ford, Richard Schwartz (for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute), Thomas Robertello, Suffolk, New York Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.


WORKSHOPS and FESTIVALS ATTENDED

- Days of American Culture in St Petersburg, 2009
- BMI Musical Theater Workshops, 2008–
- VocalEssence Essentially Choral Reading Sessions, 2008
- Aspen Music Festival: Advanced Composition Master Class, 1999
- Film Scoring Workshop: Indiana University, 1997
- New York State Summer School for the Arts: Jazz Studies, 1994
- Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Studies with Bruce Adolphe, 1995–96

EDUCATION

Boston University School of Music | Doctor of Musical Arts in Composition, 2005
Composition Teachers: John Harbison, Lukas Foss

Indiana University School of Music | Bachelor of Music in Composition, 2000
Composition Teachers: Samuel Adler, Don Freund, David Dzubay
Piano Teachers: Jeremy Denk, Evelyne Brancart


COMPOSITIONS

See separate music page.