Conducting / Choral Awards

• 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, British Columbia
• 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
• February 2005 - Finalist (1 of 4) - ACDA National Undergraduate Student Conducting Competition - ACDA National Convention - Los Angeles, CA
• May 2002 - National High School Choral Award Recipient - Salem High School - Salem, NH
  

Academic / Service Awards

• 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

• 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 and publishing by Lyceum Press.
• 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

• Apr 2007 - 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)
  
• 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)