Student Composer Award from BMI (1975) – for the symphonyThree Lives
Premier Medaille d’harmonie from the Conservatoire de Musique in Geneva (May 1972)
Major works
Poetry of the Piedmont (2006) for orchestra – commissioned by North Carolina Symphony
String Quartet No. 2 (Sylvan and Aeolian Figures) (2005) – written for the Miami String Quartet, commissioned by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (2004) – premiered by the National Symphony Orchestra under Leonard Slatkin, with soloist David Hardy
Designs (2002) for flute, guitar and percussion – premiered at the National Arts Center of Taiwan, 2002
Homage to the Breath: Instrumental and Vocal Meditations for Mezzo-soprano and Ten Instruments (2001) – featuring a text by Thich Nhat Hanh, premiered at the Hirshhorn Museum of Art in Washington, DC
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (2000) – premiered by soloist Nicholas Kitchen with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra
Songs of Turning (1996) for chorus and orchestra
Chamber Concerto ("Singing Figures") (1996) for solo oboe and chamber ensemble – recorded by Speculum Musicae