2016—2017 Season
- BRIO Award, Bronx Council on the Arts 2017
- Uncommon Music Festival Award for When Lost in the Forest 2017
- Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship 2017
2015—2016 Season
- New Ariel Piano Composition Award for Lagrimas y locuras 2016
2013—2014 Season
- Consolidated Edison “Composer in the Metropolis (NYC)” Grant
- Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music– Composer of the Month (February 2013)
2012—2013 Season
- Aaron Copland Foundation Award (May 2013)
- Pytheas Center for Contemporary Music– Composer of the Month (February 2013)
- Lagrimas y Locuras, Mapping the Mind of a Madwoman nominated for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music
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
- Runes and Ritual nominated for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Music
- Research Enabling Grant, University of North Texas
Previous Seasons
- 1st Prize for Therefore, New York Virtuoso Singers Choral Composition Competition, 2005
- International Alliance for Women in Music, Miriam Gideon Award for Vocal Chamber Works, 2003
- 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, for Where Angels May Lie Down Among Us, 1994
- Harvestworks Competition, Studio PASS, 1995
- Tyrone Guthrie Fellowship, 1994
- First Prize International Eisteddfod Competition, for La musica, los muertos y las estrellas, 1992
- Chamber Composition Grant A.C.T.S. Foundation, 1992
- First Prize New Music for Young Ensembles, for Woodwind Quintet, O llama de amor viva, 1991
- First Prize Amadeus Choir, (Toronto) for Three Short Sacred Anthems and The Oxen Carol, 1991
- Orchestral Reading Fellowship National Orchestral Association, The Tiger’s Tail, 1990-91
- First Prize First Universalist Church New Music Competition, for Three Spanish Songs, 1989
- Delius Foundation Grand Prize and Chamber Music Award, for Organal Voices, 1988
- The Church and the Artist (Archdiocese of Seattle), for Orison of Ste Theresa l987,
- 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, for Five American Echoes, l984
- First Prize Delta Omicron Competition, for Forewords, l984
- First Prize Chamber Symphony of Princeton, for Turbulence, Stillness and Saltation, l984
- First Prize New Music for Young Ensembles, for Of Honey and Of Vinegar, l984
- First Prizes National League of American Pen Women, 1988, l986, l987, l985, l983, l982
- First Prize Inter-American Music Awards, Sigma Alpha Iota, for On the Beach At Night Alone, l980
