Vanguard Opera Composer - Chicago Opera Theater 2023-2025

Artist Fellowship - Music - 2023, Illinois Arts Council Agency 2023

2023 Turn The Spotlight Fellowship 2023

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellowships 2023

PARMA/Sphinx Recording Project 2022

Chamber Music America Classical Commission (with Third Coast Percussion) 2021

Boston Opera Collaborative Commission (Last Train) 2021

Boston Opera Collaborative Commission (The Trapped Language of Love) 2020

Residency at the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts 2019

International Visiting Scholar at The University of The Bahamas 2019

IPRH-Ragdale Residential Creative Fellowship 2018

The Sixth London Festival of American Music, England 2016

VII Congreso Internacional de la Lengua Española, San Juan 2016

Aaron Copland Award by the Copland Heritage Association 2015

American Opera Project Fellowship 2015-2016

Bang on a Can Marathon 2014 2014

The Fourth London Festival of American Music, England 2012

Festival Interamericano de las Artes, San Juan 2011

The Third London Festival of American Music, England 2010

Festival Interamericano de las Artes, San Juan 2010

Sentieri selvaggi Master Class, Italy 2010

Fellow at the Civitella Ranieri, Italy 2007

John Duffy Composers Institute Fellow 2005

Bang on a Can Summer Institute 2004

Synergy: Composer and Conductor (LA Philharmonic) 2002

Norfolk Music Festival 2001

Fellow at the Fontaine Society 1996-2000

Irene Diamond Dissertation Fellowship 1999-2000

Nitzsche Music Prize - University of Pennsylvania 1999

Aaron Copland Award by the Copland Heritage Association 1998

Taller Sinfónico, Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra 1995-1997

RJR Musical Scholarship 1996

John Day Jackson Prize - Yale University 1996

ASCAP Foundation Grants to Young Composers 1995 and 1996

Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1995

Bradley-Keeler Memorial Award - Yale University 1995

Concert Artists Guild Minority Fellowship 1995-1996

New York Youth Symphony First Music 11 award and commission 1994

Joseph H. Bearns Prize - Columbia University 1993

BMI Student Composers Awards 1993

Edith Babcock Scholarship - Eastman School of Music 1992

National Hispanic Scholarship Fund 1990-1994