2005
Aaron Copland Award Composer Residency
Washington State University, "Festival of Contemporary Art Music" Featured guest composer; teaching; full concert of D. Crumb's works
2004
University of Oregon School of Music, "Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium" Composer-in-residence; teaching; presentation of recent work
2003
Barlow Endowment for Music Composition at Brigham Young University Co-commissioning grant with Third Angle New Music Ensemble
2001
Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard Commission Co-commissioning grant with Orchestra 2001
Discover America V Competition for New American Chamber Works Winning entry: Piano Quartet
2000
Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Visiting Composers Series 1999-2000 Visiting composer; short teaching residency
1999
University of Oregon School of Music “Festival of the Millennium 1999” Featured composer; participant in two panel discussions with UO professor Robert Kyr and composer George Crumb.
1998
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship Research period: composed Piano Quartet and The Whisperer
University of Oregon New Faculty Award Research period: preliminary work on Piano Quartet
1997
National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors Composition Project Award Commissioned work: Sextet (see also under "Commissions")
Riverside Symphony International Composer Readings Reading of Vestiges of a Distant Time
MacDowell Colony Artist Residency
Yaddo Colony Artist Residency
1996
Meet the Composer Fund Visiting composer honorarium, "Young Professionals Concert," Community Arts Center, Wallingford, Pennsylvania
Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program Grant to assist with music copying expenses
1995
New England Reed Trio Composition Competition Third Prize for Soundings. Performance by New England Reed Trio; publication by Frank E. Warren Music Service
1993
Meet the Composer/California and AT&T Premiere Artists Program Featured composer honorarium, Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group, The Green Umbrella series
Margaret Fairbank Jory Copying Assistance Program Grant to assist with music copying expenses
1992
A.S.C.A.P. Foundation Young Composer Grants Winning entry: Clarino
Los Angeles Symphony "L.A. Composers Project 2" Award Commissioned work: Variations for Cello and Chamber Ensemble
Orchestra Society of Philadelphia "New Orchestral Project, Philadelphia 1992" Reading of work-in-progress
A.S.C.A.P./Raymond Hubbell Music Scholarship Award
1991
University of Pennsylvania Hilda K. Nitzshe Prize
Vanguard Arts Associates Competition Third Prize for Miniatures
1989
Aaron and Abby Schroeder Fellowship/Margaret Lee Crofts Fellowship (Tanglewood Music Festival) Studied composition with Lukas Foss
A.S.C.A.P. Foundation Young Composer Grants Winning entry: Piano Sonata
1988
University of Pennsylvania David Halstead Prize
1987
University of Pennsylvania Helen L. Weiss Prize