COMPOSITION GRANTS and FELLOWSHIPS:
- New York State Council for the Arts - 2007/08
$15,000 grant for 2007/08 grant to support various projects and activities as Composer in Residence with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, the MCO at Keuka College (upstate New York), and New York City including: three Composer in Residence appointments for the MCO: 1st residency - Finger Lakes (NY) Summer Music Festival (June 2007); Premieres of two new works written during the June 2007 residency for the 10 player resident chamber ensemble; 2nd residency - Keuka College (July, 2007), and 3rd residency - Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, NYC, November 2007. *** Grant also supports: performances new (2006) orchestration of Struwwelpeter (1991 tenor cycle) Jan 2007, and 5-movement Midwestfunkenmusik (2006/07), Merkin Hall, NYC, May 2007, Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, AND commercial recording of an All-Schelle CD (Manhattan Chamber Orchestra)
of Godzilla, Midwestfunkenmusik, Prayer (solo cello and winds) and Struwwelpeter – scheduled for October/November 2007, New York City.
- American Symphony Orchestra League, Inc. (NYC)
- Arts Council of Indianapolis
$7,500 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition, research
. . . and travel; (Poland, Germany, Japan) 2007/2008 (see 'news')
$7,500 Individual Creative Arts Fellowship: for composition and film music (1999/2000)
$5,000 Individual Artist Fellowship: commission for a new orchestral work (1996)
$5,000 Individual Artist Fellowship: for composition (1990)
- American Music Center - Rockefeller Foundation
MFJ Copying assistance grants awarded for orchestral works: March, 1990; October, 1994
- Indiana Arts Commission
$3,000 summer fellowships - Individual Artist Master Fellowship Program.
A statewide competition for all arts disciplines: Summer, 1986; Summer, 1998
- New England Foundation for the Arts
"Meet the Composer" funding for composition residency - Greenwich, CT: 1990
- Arts Midwest and Great Lakes Arts Alliance
"Meet the Composer" funding for comp residencies 1985, 1987, 1989, 1990,
1992, 1994, 1997, 2004.
1993 MTC Travel Grant for guest composer activities with 16 Indiana state orchestras
- "Meet the Composer, Inc." New York City
Funding for composition residencies: Pittsburgh 1980, 1984, Albuquerque 1983, Buffalo 1984, Albany 1986, Springfield 1987, Cincinnati 1988, Syracuse 1990, Los Angeles 1995, Arkansas 2004, New Mexico 2004 - 2006.
- Butler/Holcomb Research Foundation
Faculty fellowship grants for composition, research and film music work: summers,
1983 - 1989, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007 . . .
. . . c. $3000 - $5000 each
- ASCAP Foundation (New York)
Grants awarded in the annual national competition for composers under age 30:
Spring, 1979 ($1,000); Spring, 1980 ($1,000)
- MacDowell Artists Colony
Peterborough, New Hampshire. Residencies: Summer, 1977 and Summer, 1988.
- ASCAP Standard Awards Panel Grants
Annual grants: 1979 - 1983. These were member grants awarded on
an annual basis (in national competition) rewarding "creative activity."
(Since January, 1984, I am a member of BMI.)
- Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) Awards
Similar to above ASCAP awards: annual guarantee, since 1984 . . .
- Wolf Trap Center for the Performing Arts - Vienna, VA
(Wolf Trap Foundation Grant) Composer in Residence: Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts Composer's Cottage, Vienna, VA: Summer, 1978.
COMPOSITION AWARDS and PRIZES:
- Music Teachers National Association - $2,000 First Prize in a national competition for new chamber works and honored as Distinguished Composer of the Year during the MTNA National Conference. Musica Magnetizzare was selected from all state commissions. Wichita, KS.
- Barlow Endowment for Music Composition (Utah) - $5,000 commission prize awarded (in national competition) for a new orchestral work 1989/90.
- Symposium XII for New Band Music - Second Prize in a national competition for new band music. Seven Steps from Hell (1985) was performed by the Virginia All-State Honors Collegiate Band (composer conducting). 8 works were selected (from an initial 75 entries) for performance during the symposium: of the 8 performed, 3 were awarded prizes. Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA: February, 1987.
- "Music in the Mountains" National Competition for New Orchestral Works - $1,500 First Prize and New York premiere of Masque (1979) - in the first annual national competition - New York Festival Orchestra, SUNY-New Paltz. Work selected from 75 submissions. June 1985.
- Harvey Gaul Memorial Composition Prize - $1,000 First Prize in a national competition for new chamber works. Music for the Last Days of Strindberg (1979) - for 9 players - was selected from over sixty entries and premiered by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble: October, 1980.
- American Society of University Composers Composition Prize - First Prize in the annual ASUC Student Composers Competition. Chamber Concerto for Solo Violin and Three Players (1978) was premiered at the 1979 ASUC National Conference and later published in the ASUC Journal of Music Scores, Vol. XII. University of California-San Diego: March, 1979.
- Inter-American Music Festival Composition Prize - $3,000 First Prize in an international competition for new orchestral works sponsored by the Pan-American Cultural Foundation and the Organization of American States. Lancaster Variations for Orchestra (1976) was selected from over 250 entries to receive the award and performances by the Orquesta Sinfonica National, San Jose, Costa Rica: 9 / 1978.
- Delius Association Composition Prize - First Prize in a national competition (chamber division) for Second Piano Sonata (1974). Orchestral work, El Salon Medico (1977), received 'Honorable Mention' in the orchestra category for the same year. Jacksonville, FL: March, 1978
- Indiana State University Contemporary Music Festival Composition Prize - One of three invited guest composers for the annual week-long festival. Lancaster Variations for Orchestra (1976) was selected from over 100 entries (in national competition), premiered by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. Indiana State University, Terre Haute: January, 1977
- Bayles Memorial Composition Award Hartt School of Music student comp prize 1976