Grants, Honors & Awards

• 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