Conducting Competitions

• October 2009 - Eric Ericson Award - Invited Participant (1 of 12);
  Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden
• February 2005 - Finalist (1 of 4) - ACDA National Undergraduate Student Conducting Competition - ACDA National Convention - Los Angeles, CA

Conducting / Choral Awards-Opportunities

• January 2010 - Conducting Fellow for Chorus America Conducting Masterclass - Robert Sund and Marguerite Brooks, podium coaches and clinicians; Robert Simpson and the Houston Chamber Choir, host - Houston, TX
• June-July 2009 - Faculty (Tenor/Conductor) at the Berkshire Choral Festival Montreal - Frank Nemhauser, artistic director; Julian Wachner, conductor - Montreal, QC, Canada
• August 2008 - Choral Fellow at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival with Simon Carrington - Norfolk, CT
• July 2008 - Fellow of the Conductors Institute at Bard College in the Conducting Program for Fellows and Colleagues - Harold Farberman, founder and artistic director; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• June 2008 - Conducting Apprentice at the Berkshire Choral Festival - Frank Nemhauser, artistic director; Jon Washburn, conductor - Vancouver, BC, Canada
• July/August 2007 - Conducting/Accompanist Apprentice at the Berkshire Choral Festival - Frank Nemhauser, artistic director; Master classes with Grant Gershon and Kathy Saltzman-Romey - Sheffield, MA
• March 2007 - Ithaca College ACDA Named Outstanding Student Chapter at the National Convention in Miami, FL (Treasurer for Ithaca College ACDA - '05-'06)
• January 2007 - Residency and Master Classes with Helmuth Rilling; Conductor for the Lecture-Concert - J.S. Bach Magnificat in Eb - Sprague Hall - New Haven, CT
• August 2006 - Choral Conducting Fellow at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival with Simon Carrington - Norfolk, CT
• July 2006 - Berkshire Scholar at the Berkshire Choral Festival - Frank Nemhauser, artistic director; Maria Guinand, conductor - Sheffield, MA
• February 2006 - ACDA Kegerreis Scholarship Recipient - ACDA Eastern Division Convention - New York, NY
• August 2005 - Conductor at the first Transient Glory Choral Symposium and Chamber Music Festival - Francisco Núñez, artistic director - New York, NY
• May 2002 - National High School Choral Award Recipient - Salem High School - Salem, NH
  

Academic / Service Awards

• Feb 2010 - SW ACDA Regional Convention (Denver, CO) Invited to present my doctoral research on embedded tonality in the music of Penderecki at a research poster session to the general membership. 
• 2009 - Yale School of Music Alumni Association Award, given to students who have not only excelled in their respective fields but who have also made an important contribution to the general life of the School
• 2009 - Aidan J. Kavanagh Achievement Prize from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, given to a student in recognition of distinguished intellectual achievement
  
• August 2007 - Charles Dodsley Walker Award, given each summer to an apprentice at the Berkshire Choral Festival for outstanding musical contributions and for embodying the spirit of the organization
• 2007 - Hugh Giles Prize from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, awarded to the student who has most clearly demonstrated interest, perseverance and achievement during the first year of study.
• 2006-2007 - Phi Kappa Phi National Graduate Fellowship
• May 2006 - Ithaca College Dean’s Award
  (for highest GPA in graduating class) - School of Music
• May 2006 - Ithaca College Campus Life Award
  (given to 10 students in the graduating class for outstanding service to the College community outside the classroom)
• 2005-2006, 2004-2005 - Who’s Who Among Students in Colleges and Universities – Ithaca College
• 2005-2006 - Presser Scholar - Presser Foundation
  (most prestigious endowed scholarship from the IC School of Music)
• November 2005 - Phi Kappa Phi Shirley O. Hockett Presidential Award - Ithaca College
• Outstanding Senior Award – Pi Kappa Lambda - Ithaca College
• Outstanding Junior Award – Pi Kappa Lambda - Ithaca College

Composition Awards

• 2009 Honorable Mention - Classical Marimba League Composition Competition - "Opposing Forces" for Marimba Duo
• 2009 Winner - Young New Yorkers' Chorus Fifth Annual Nathan Davis Prize in Composition - New York, NY
• 2009 Honorable Mention - Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition - Boston, MA
• 2007 First Place Winner - American Masterpieces Choral Composition Contest - for Say On, Sayers! - Performances by the Manchester Choral Society in May 2007 - Manchester, NH.
• 2007 Winner - Allen E. Ostrander Trombone Composition Prize, given by the Ithaca College Trombone Troupe for How solemn, as one by one... - Premiere performance at Penn State University, University Park, PA in April 2007.
• 2006 Winner - Raymond W. Brock Memorial Student Composition Prize - for The Soul's Passing - Performance at the ACDA National Convention March 2007 in Miami, FL.
• 2006-2007 - Winner - Cantate Chamber Singers Young Composer's Competition - for Cantate Domino. Premiere performance March 2007 by the CCS in Chevy Chase, MD.
• November 2006 - Selected Composer for "New York Sings! - A Composers' Symposium" with the Women's Chorale of 171 Cedar and composers Francisco Núñez and Glenn McClure - Corning, NY
• 2005-2006 - Philip J. Lang Composition Award - Ithaca College -
  Ithaca, NY
• 2004-2005 - Chas F. Hockett Composition Award - Ithaca College -
  Ithaca, NY

• June 2010 - Commissioned by Commonwealth Youth Choirs to write a new work for the Keystone State Boychoir and the Pennsylvania Girlchoir for the 2010 Gala Concert.
• May 2010 - Commissioned by Charles Kelley and the Rhinebeck Choral Club to write a new work for mixed choir, piano, and cello on the words of Langston Hughes.
• Apr 2009 - Commissioned by Holland Jancaitis and the Cornell Chorale to write a new festival anthem for mixed choir, organ, and chimes.
• Apr 2008 - Commissioned by the University Church at Yale to write an anthem for the Battell Chapel Choir in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the University Church at Yale University.
• Oct 2007 - Commissioned by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music to write a new hymn for the Eucharist inaugurating the installation of the new Taylor and Boody Op. 55 meantone organ in Marquand Chapel.  On a text of Thomas H. Troeger.
• May 2007 - Work for Trumpet, Violin, and Piano for Sarah Dash to commemorate the 65th birthdays of her parents.
• August 2006 - Work for Tenor Voice and Guitar for Dr. David Parks and Dr. Pablo Cohen - Ithaca College - Ithaca, NY
• May 2006 - Work for Alto Saxophone, Trumpet, and Piano for Dr. Steven Mauk, Dr. Kim Dunnick, and Dr. Diane Birr - Ithaca College - Ithaca, NY
• April 2006 - Commissioned work for Windham Middle School Band - 6th Grade Band - Jared Cassedy, conductor - Windham, NH
• 2005-2006 - Five Commissioned Choral Works for the Ithaca Children's Choir, Janet Galván, artistic director - Ithaca, NY
• April 2005 - Commissioned Contemporary Mass Setting - Ithaca College Catholic Community - In Honor of Matthew Clark's 25th (Jubilee) Year as Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rochester - Ithaca, NY

• American Choral Directors Association (ACDA)
• American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
  
• Chorus America
• College Music Society (CMS)
• Oxford University Press (OUP)
• Pi Kappa Lambda (national music honor society)
• Phi Kappa Phi (national honor society)
• Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America
• Roger Dean Publishing Company (Lorenz Corporation)
• Texas Two-Year College Choral Directors Assoc. (TTCCDA)
  
• Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA)