AWARDS

Two American Music Center Composer Assistance Grants 2001, 2006

First Prize San Francisco Song Festival 2005

Ward Dennis Scholarship Columbia University 2000-2001

ASCAP Classical Division Awards 1995-2010

Meet the Composer recording grant 1996

Juilliard American Opera Center coaching/conducting fellowship 1986-88

Suite for Suzanne (after To Kill a Mockingbird)
5 movements for cello and piano
Commissioned by James D. Hurwitz and family in honor of Suzanne Hurwitz, September 27, 2007

Give Us Our Peace (Langston Hughes)
for Four Singers (SATB) and Two Pianos
Commissioned by Kenneth P. Neilson, Director, All Seasons Art, August 6, 2007. Dedicated to the children of P.S. 134, Queens, The Langston Hughes School.

The Good Friar (librettto: Mark Campbell)
A short comic opera for mezzo-soprano and two baritones based on "Third Day Third Story" by Giovanni Boccaccio.
Commissioned by mezzo-soprano, Emily Langford Johnson, November 5, 2007.

Circe’s Power: Seven Songs (poetry of May Swenson, Louis Glück, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Song of Solomon, John Ciardi, Anne Finch.)
For voice and piano
Commissioned by soprano, Trudy Craney in 2006.

A Letter to East 11th Street- Part I (libretto: Mark Campbell)
Opera for tenor, actress and small orchestra
Commissioned 2003 by the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a project of the Alliance for the Arts.

Ruminations (Six Poems of William Bronk)
For baritone, B flat clarinet, Bass clarinet and piano.
Commissioned by the Gilmore family in memory of William Bronk. 2003

A Birthday (Chirstina Rossetti) and I Dream a World (Langston Hughes)
Voice and piano
Commissioned in 2003 by Patricia Brady Danzig.

Two Poems 9/11/01 and 9/10/01 (Paul Kiel)
Soprano, baritone and piano quintet
Commissioned in 2002 by the Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, a project of the Alliance for the Arts.

Songs of Irony/Songs of Love (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
3 sonnets and a poem for voice and piano
Commissioned in 2002 by soprano, Donna Zapola-Connolly.

Benjamin Fraser (Edgar Lee Masters)
For countertenor, flute, cello, percussion and piano.
Commissioned by countertenor, John Carden in 2000.

Rhapsody and Remembrance
Vocalise for countertenor and piano
Commissioned by John Carden in 2000.

Lost Sense (Sens Pierdut) (Constantin Popa)
English translation by Martin Hennessy with Micaela Ionescu and Carmen Popa.
For voice and piano
Commissioned by Patricia Brady Danzig 1998

Le Virus S’Amuse
For solo flute
Commissioned in 1999 by flutist, Don Hulbert

Silent Night
Vocalise for soprano and cello
Commissioned in 1997 by soprano, Tomoko Shibata

Sonnet for Michael (Time does not bring relief) (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
For voice and piano
Commissioned in 1996 by baritone, Peter Van Derick in memory of Michael Alhonte.