Awards, Residencies and Memberships

Awards and Residencies

  • 2023 NYSCA Recipient for Strangers: A Chamber Ballet About Immigration

  • Auditor for the 2023 ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop

  • 2022 Redtail Composer Artist Residency (formerly Explore the Metropolis)

  • 2nd round finalist in WindWerk - Take Off Arranger Competition

  • Composer-in-Residence for the 2019/20 fp Creative

  • 2020 100 Offerings of Peace Commission from the Peace Studio

  • White Snake Projects – Sing Out Strong: Decolonized Voices Commission

  • 2019 Selected Composer for the Stradella Baroque Festival NEWTRACKS @FBAS

  • 2019 Talis Music Festival Academy Music Fellow

  • 2018 Diploma for Achievements in the Art of Choral Writing from the III International Choral Writing Competition Named After A.D. Kastalsky

  • Winner of the 2018 EQT Composition Contest

  • 2018 Yorkshire Film Scoring Competition

  • 2019 Baltimore Philharmonia Composer Contest

  • 2019 Cypress Symphonic Winds Composer Competition

  • 2017 Dean’s List for Manhattan School of Music

  • 2013 Olivier Award Nomination – Orchestrations (The Color Purple at Menier Chocolate Factory)

  • 2011 LA Weekly Theater Awards – Musical of the Year Award (The Color Purple at Celebration Theater, LA)

  • 2010-11 Alan. A. Mannasson Scholar

  • 2008 Phi Mu Alpha American Soloist Competition (undergrad division), 1st place undergrad division

  • 2006 Louis Armstrong Jazz Award

Memberships

Phi Mu Alpha (PMA - Omicron Pi chapter)

Game Audio Network Guild (GANG)

The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL)

American Society of Music Arrangers and Composers (ASMAC)

Recording Musicians of America (RMA)

Academy of Scoring Arts (ASA)

Production Music Association (PMA)