Awards & PrizesSummer Suite for trumpet & string orchestra and The Far North Land: Passages for String Orchestra were awarded Honorable Mention in the 2010 Pathways Contest by Imagine Music Publishing, while The Far North: Passages for School Band won Honorable Mention in their 2010 Fusion Contest. In July 2010, an international panel of judges named The Tree as a finalist for the Seghizzi International Choral Festival held in Gorizia, Italy. Two performances of Scenes from Razumov at the Fresh Voices IX Festival of New and Used Operas in San Francisco in May 2009 in were funded in part by an award from the Composer Assistance Program of the American Music Center. From the Odes of Solomon received a Commendation in the 2007 Heritage Singers Composers Competition. Leo was named as a Finalist in the 2007 Cincinnati Camerata Composition Competition. Beneath the Apple Tree was awarded First Place in the 2006 Orpheus Music Composition Competition for new music for recorder. Orpheus Music has also published the piece.
ERM Media awarded the Suite from Razumov their Masterworks Prize in 2005. The piece was recorded by members of the Kiev Philharmonic for Volume 6 of the Masterworks of the New Era CD series. The 21st Century (A Girl Born in Afghanistan) was selected as a Finalist in the inaugural New Choral Music Competition at Briar Cliff University. The piece was performed on May 2, 2003, at the Orpheum Theatre, Sioux City, Iowa, by the Briar Cliff University Chamber Singers under the direction of Dr. Mark Simmons.
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