Major Awards
2018: New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) Individual Artist Grant for the Nossa Senhora Suite
2017: Sacatar Institute Fellowship, Bahia, Brazil (2018 eight week residency)
2016: New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fiscal sponsorship for new Afro-Brazilian project, the Nossa Senhora Suite
2015: Berger-Carter Research Fund grant recipient, Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies, NJ Research on jazz in Catholicism in the late 1960s/early 1970s
2011: Finalist for a Fulbright research/teaching award in São Paulo, Brazil
2002: Winner of the Great American Jazz Piano Competition, Jacksonville, FL
Fan Award
2016: Hothouse New York Fans Decision Jazz Award- best pianist
Composing- Awards and commissions
2018: Composition Fellow at the Choral Art Initiative PREMIERE|Project Festival
(Premiere of SATB piece, “Oração da Viajante (The Traveler’s Prayer)”
2017: Winner of the ChoralArt New England Carol Contest
(SATB a cappella piece, “A Christmas Carol”)
2017: Winner of the Colorado Chorale commissioning contest (2018 premiere of “After a Storm”)
2017: Winner of the Annual Hymn Search of The Hymn Society in the US and Canada
(“We Belong to God”)
2017: Justice Choir call for scores: SATB song, “We Walk in Love,” is selected for the Justice Choir Songbook, Vol. 1
2017: St. Peter Episcopal Church, Astabula, OH (SA commission, “Who Do You Say?”)
2016: MusicSpoke: Selected as a MusicSpoke affiliated composer
2016: Lutheran Arts’ Martin Luther Hymn Prize recipient (new hymn and anthem commission)
2016: Illinois-ACDA Composition Contest Winner (for SSAA piece, “Where Shadow Chases Light”)
2015: Composer-Librettist Studio at New Dramatists, New York
One of five composers selected for the annual music-theatre workshop
2015: The Astoria Choir Call for Scores Winner (for SSAATTB piece, “Glistening Lily”)
2013: The American Prize in Choral Composition semifinalist (for “Glistening Lily”)
2013-15: Park Avenue Christian Church, New York
Over fifteen original works for Sanctuary Choir, Gospel Choir, and congregation
2010: United Methodist Women’s Assembly, St. Louis, MO (theme song for 6000 attendees)
2004: Concentus Women’s Choir, Rochester, NY (SSAA commission, ‘I learned that her name was Proverb’)
