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composition prizes

First Prize, ALEA III International Composition Competition 2004
Buoyancy (flute and harp, 2000)

Recording Prize (1st Prize), Contemporary Record Society Composer Competition 2000
If Crumble (violin, violoncello and piano, 1997)

Joseph S. Stauffer Prize, Canada Council for the Arts 1998
Awarded to a Canadian artist for excellence in music composition, visual art or literature

Prix Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, CBC National Competition for Young Composers 1997
...eûmerions... (violin and piano, 1994)

Morton Gould Award for Young Composers, ASCAP Foundation 1997
Liquid With (orchestra, 1997)

2nd Prize, CBC National Competition for Young Composers 1997
...eûmerions... (violin and piano, 1994)

3rd Prize (Sir Ernest MacMillan Award), SOCAN National Young Composers Competition 1997
Liquid With (orchestra, 1997)

1st Prize (Serge Garant Award), SOCAN National Young Composers Competition 1994
When In (two pianos, eight hands, 1994)

2nd Prize, CBC National Competition for Young Composers 1994
When In (two pianos, eight hands, 1994)

arts grants and residencies

Academie Schloss Solitude–Solitude Fellowship 2006/2007
12 month residency for the creation of site-specific audio/video environment
with performances of Book Awry

Ideas for Creative Exploration, University of Georgia–Project Grant 2003
for research in interactive audio installation

The Canada Council for the Arts–Grant for Composers 2002
Book Awry–solo pieces for various instruments, for optional simultaneous performance (in progress)

The Camargo Foundation–Camargo Fellowship 2001
Residential fellowship for the composition of Pure Leaf or Leap (14 musicians, in progress)

The Canada Council for the Arts–Grant for Composers 1998
Cloak with Third with Ochre–three works, playable separately or simultaneously:
Cloak With (orchestra, 2000) • Third With (piano, 2000) • Ochre With (audio installation, 2000)

The Canada Council for the Arts–Short Term Grant for Composers 1996
Liquid With (orchestra, 1997)

Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à la Recherche (FCAR) 1994
Québec provincial research grant for graduate studies in composition

The Canada Council for the Arts–Travel Grants 1998, 2002, 2005

commissions

San Francisco Boys Chorus 2005
C. elegans (children’s choir and piano, 2006)

Ensemble Musicatreize–funded by the Canada Council for the Arts 2001
Noeuds de chanterelles au coulis de cimes, et autres délices
(flute, zither, percussion, piano, 6 voices, viola d’amore, double bass, 2002)

Contemporary Record Society 2000
Buoyancy (flute and harp, 2000) for Anana Duo

Jeunesses Musicales du Canada 1997
If Crumble (violin, violoncello and piano, 1997) for Trio Voltaire

Hammerhead Consort–funded by the Canada Council for the Arts 1994
Why is the texture of uncertainty? (two pianos, two percussionists and three CDs, 1995)

Codes d'Accès 1994
...eûmerions... (violin and piano, 1994) for Silvia Mandolini and Brigitte Poulin

technology grants

Learning Technologies Grant, CAIT, University of Georgia 2004
$25,000 to design/implement the Mobile Interactivity Learning Lab (MILL). The MILL facilitates research and education in site-specific, collaborative and interactive multimedia installation and performance using wireless, high-bandwidth networking. The MILL is a mobile teaching lab for the Lamar Dodd School of Art.