Awards For Compositions

First Place in the California State Composers Today competition, 2010, for 5 Songs from China

First Place in the California State Composers Today competition, 2009 for 5 Songs from Japan

First place in the California State Composers Today Competition, 2008 for The Quangle Wangle’s Hat

Second place in the California State Composers Today Competition, 2008 for Halloween Happenings

Honorable Mention in the California State Composers Today Competition 2007 for Sad Matilda

1st Place in the international call for scores by the Minnesota Sinfonia. Gold Fever Jazz was subsequently performed by the chamber orchestra at the Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Mn and the Basilica of St. Mary’s in Minneapolis in 2004

2nd Place in the California State Composers Today Competition 2003 – followed by a performance of Masquerade for piano at the State convention

Honorable Mention in the California State Composers Today Competition 2002 for Spanish Soliloquy

Other Awards

• 1st Place for piano at the Buxton International Music Festival, England, 1977