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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
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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
Commissions
- 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
Professional
Affiliations
- 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)
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