composition prizes

• 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.