EDUCATION

University of Chicago, PhD Composition 1988
University of Chicago, AM Composition 1986
Vassar College, AB Music 1984
(Aspen Music School

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

New York State Council for the Arts, Individual Artist Grant 2000
American Composers Forum Composer Commissioning Program Award, 1996
Ragdale Foundation Fellowship and Residency, 1996
Corporation of Yaddo Fellowships, 1991, 1992, 1996
ASCAP Standard/ASCAP PLUS Awards, 1992-2007
Meet the Composer Performance Grant, 1992, 2000
Forum 91/UNESCO International Composers Competition Finalist, 1991
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Composers Competition Finalist, 1990
MacDowell Colony Fellowships and Residencies, 1990, 1989
Internationales Ferienkurze für Neue Musik Darmstadt Fellowship, 1988
BMI Young Composers Prize, (for EPIPHANY) 1988, (for NIGHT PRAYER) 1986
University of Chicago Teaching Fellowship, 1987-1988
W.K. Rose Fellowship in the Creative Arts, 1986-1987
University of Chicago Graduate Fellowships, 1984-1988
Aspen Music Festival Composition Fellowship, 1984
Chittenden Music Prize, Vassar College, 1984


SELECTED COMMISSIONS AND PERFORMANCES

World Bank Theater, Washington D.C.
New York Stage and Film Festival, Poughkeepsie,NY
Contemporary Chamber Players, Chicago
Civic Orchestra of Chicago
New Music Chicago Festival
The Jerome Foundation
PS 122, NYC
The Laurel Foundation
Arts Club of Chicago
Aspen Music Festival
Bard College
Yale University
Temple University
Vassar College
The University of Chicago
Northwestern University
Roosevelt College
Saint Anns Singers
Lorellen Green Dance, NYC
Riverdale Choral Society, NYC
New York Botanical Gardens
The Shooting Gallery, NYC
Westbeth Theater Center, NYC
Saint Ann and the Holy Trinity, Brooklyn
Auditorium Theater, Chicago
Powerhouse Theater Festival, Poughkeepsie NY
Composers Concordance, NYC
Auréole
American Composers Forum
The Friends and Enemies of New Music
CUBE Ensemble
University of Florida School of Music
International Saxophone Congree
North American Saxophone Congree
University of Quebec, Montreal
Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
BargeMusic, NYC
Onassis Foundation, NYC
Peabody Conservatory
University of Alabama
Raritan River Music Festival, NJ
College of William and Mary, VA
Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano
Kevin Sharpe, pianist
Antigoni Goni, guitarist
American Liszt Society Festival
NPR Performance Today WNYC
Arts and Entertainment Network (television)
Duo 46
Jonathan Helton, saxophonist
Grace and Spiritus Chorale


RECORDINGS

HOMMAGE A B.B. on DREAMSCAPE, Heidi Grant Murphy and Auréole, Koch International Classics, 1999;arrangement of SEU SOU SABIA (Caetano Veloso)and arrangement of AGUAS DA MARÇO (A.C. Jobim) on SUENOS DE AMOR, Heidi Grant Murphy, Auréole and guests, Koch International Classics, October 2004; ODD PRELUDES: forthcoming, Jonathan Helton and Barbara Gonzalez-Palmer, Centaur Records


PUBLICATIONS

HOMMAGE A B.B.; (voice, alto flute, viola), Lux Nova Press, 2002
SIX MOTIONS; (clarinet and piano), Lux Nova Press, 2002
FRISS (flute and guitar), Lux Nova Press, 2002
SIX PRELUDES; (piano solo), Lux Nova Press, 2003


All other compositions published by P B P Music (ASCAP)