First Prize, ALEA III International Composition Competition, 2004
Recording Prize (1st Prize), Contemporary Record Society Composer Competition, 2000
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
Morton Gould Award for Young Composers, ASCAP Foundation, 1997
2nd Prize, CBC National Competition for Young Composers, 1997
3rd Prize (Sir Ernest MacMillan Award), SOCAN National Young Composers Competition, 1997
1st Prize (Serge Garant Award), SOCAN National Young Composers Competition, 1994
2nd Prize, CBC National Competition for Young Composers, 1994
arts grants and residencies
Academie Schloss Solitude–Solitude Fellowship, 2006/2007 12-month fellowship in Music and Sound for the creation of site-specific installations and performances
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: pieces for various instruments, for optional simultaneous performance
The Camargo Foundation–Camargo Fellowship, 2001 Six month residential fellowship in composition
The Canada Council for the Arts–Grant for Composers, 1998 Cloak with Third with Ochre: three works, playable separately or simultaneously: • Cloak With (orchestra) • Third With (piano) • Ochre With (audio installation)
The Canada Council for the Arts–Short Term Grant for Composers, 1996 Liquid With (orchestra)
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, 2009
selected commissions
Quartet New Generation– funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, 2008 Puerilia, or Amusements for the Young (recorder quartet and optional electronics)
Jill Richards–funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, 2006 Echolalia (solo piano and optional electronics)
San Francisco Boys Chorus, 2005 C. elegans (children's choir and piano)
Ensemble Musicatreize–funded by the Canada Council for the Arts, 2001 Noeuds de chanterelles au coulis de cimes, et autres délices (ensemble and six voices)
Contemporary Record Society, 2000 Buoyancy (flute and harp)
Jeunesses Musicales du Canada, 1997 If Crumble (violin, violoncello and piano) 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)
Codes d'Accès, 1994 ...eûmerions... (violin and piano) for Silvia Mandolini and Brigitte Poulin
technology grants
Learning Technologies Grant, Committee for Applied Instructional Technologies, University of Georgia, 2010 to design/build the School of Art's VISION Lab for advanced interactive video and computer vision
Learning Technologies Grant, Committee for Applied Instructional Technologies, University of Georgia, 2004 to design/build the School of Art's Mobile Interactivity Learning Lab, for site-specific, collaborative and interactive multimedia installation and performance.