Grants, Honors & Awards

2011 - 2012 Season

Lagrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman
A Lisztian look at La Llorona
Commissioned by Ana Cervantes and the Monarca Project

Cassandra’s Lament, commissioned by the Jane Austen Society of North America
for world premiere Oct 6, 2012

Previous Seasons

• 1st Prize for Therefore, New York Virtuoso Singers Choral Composition Competition
  
  
• International Alliance for Women in Music, 2003 Miriam Gideon Award for Vocal Chamber Works
  
  
• Arizona Friends of Chamber Music String Quartet Competition Commission, 1998
  
  
• Artist Fund Fellowship New York Foundation for the Arts, 1998
  
  
• First Prize New England Chamber Orchestra Competition, 1994 for Where Angels May Lie Down Among Us
  
  
• Harvestworks Competition, Studio PASS, 1995
  
  
• Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship, 1994
  
  
• First Prize International Eisteddfod Competition, 1992 for La musica, los muertos y las estrellas
  
  
• Chamber Composition Grant A.C.T.S. Foundation
  
  
• First Prize New Music for Young Ensembles, 1991 for Woodwind Quintet, O llama de amor viva
  
  
• First Prize Amadeus Choir, 1991, (Toronto) for Three Short Sacred Anthems and The Oxen Carol
  
  
• Orchestral Reading Fellowship National Orchestral Association, 1990-91 The Tiger's Tail
  
  
• First Prize First Universalist Church New Music Competition, 1989 for Three Spanish Songs
  
  
• Delius Foundation Grand Prize and Chamber Music Award, 1988 for Organal Voices
  
  
• The Church and the Artist (Archdiocese of Seattle) l987, for Orison of Ste Theresa
  
  
• Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation Fellowship, 1986
  
  
• Artists Fellowship [Inaugural Year] New Jersey State Council on the Arts (in recognition of "Outstanding Artist Merit" and "Achievement as an Artist"), 1984-1985
  
  
• First Prize Baroque Choral Guild, l984 for Five American Echoes
  
  
• First Prize Delta Omicron Competition, l984 for Forewords
  
  
• First Prize Chamber Symphony of Princeton, l984 for Turbulence, Stillness and Saltation
  
  
• First Prize New Music for Young Ensembles, l984 for Of Honey and Of Vinegar
  
  
• First Prizes National League of American Pen Women, 1988,l986, l987, l985, l983, l982
  
  
• First Prize Inter-American Music Awards, Sigma Alpha Iota, l980 for On the Beach At Night Alone