• 1993 - 2000
  Eubie Blake Scholar, recognition for achievements in the study of music
  
  
• 1997
  Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Composition
  
  
• 1994
  National Endowment for the Arts, Composition
  
  
• 1992 & 1995
  Telly Award, contributions to children’s educational video
  
  
• 1992
  American Music Center, Margaret Jory Award for music preparation
  
  
• 1990
  Artistic Merit Scholarship, Manhattan School of Music
  
  
• 1978
  National Endowment for the Arts, Jazz Performance

Residences

• 2003
  ASCAP/NYU Buddy Baker Film Composition Seminar
  
  
• 1992 - 1994
  BMI Jazz Composers Workshop

Invitations

• 2007
  Conduct Lower Merion Concert Band
  
  
• 2006
  Conduct Chester County Concert Band
  
  
• 2005
  Enlist in Metropolitan Public Dialogue Association
  Adjudicate Collegiate Choral Competition
  
  
• 2004
  Adjudicate New York City Piano Competition
  
  
• 2000
  Adjudicate New Jersey Jazz Spectacular
  
  
• 1999
  Adjudicate New Jersey Jazz Spectacular
  
  
• 1998
  Adjudicate New Jersey Jazz Spectacular

Presentations / Papers

• 2008
  American Culture Association / Popular Culture Association, San Francisco CA
  An Eclectic Analysis of Harold Arlen’s “Over the Rainbow”
  
  
• 2007
  American Culture Association / Popular Culture Association, Boston MA
  A Critical Survey of Music in Film
  
  
• 2006
  American Culture Association / Popular Culture Association, Atlanta GA
  A Historical Overview of the Modern Dance Suite
  
  
• 2003
  New York University, Steinhardt School of Education Performing Arts Colloquium
  Bela Bartok: Dance Suite for Orchestra
  
  
• 1977
  PA Senate Hearings on the Arts,
  Do We Need Jazz Education?
  

Commissions

• 2008
  Interlink Media Israel:
  Land of Promise and Conflict and Puzzle Pieces
  
  
• 2001
  Interlink Media Across the Centuries
  
  
• 1995
  Interlink Media A Firm Foundation
  
  
• 1993
  Interlink Media The Book of Confessions
  
  Dance Fusion ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas
  
  Philadelphia Film Festival Spaces of the Heart
  
  International Ministries of the American Baptist Churches Tomakoma
  
  
• 1992
  Interlink Media
  The Royal Crown and The Ant and The Grasshopper
  
  
• 1991
  International Brass Conference New York City,
  To Be With You Again
  
  
• 1988
  PBS Special Judith Jamison -
  Portrait of an Artist and A Children’s World
  
  
• 1987
  Christ United Church Marlton NJ
  Twenty-fifth Anniversary Celebration