Awards
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
Awarded the Simons Public Humanities Fellowship at the Hall Center for the Humanities at the University of Kansas. The fellowship will be for the 2011-2012 academic year.
Winner of the 2009 CAP Grant awarded by the American Music Center for The Margaret Walker Song Cycle.
EMMY AWARDS
Winner of a 2002 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the Outstanding Collaborative Achievement for Composers for Ticktock Minutes PBS educational public service announcements. Read more
Winner of a 1999 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the Outstanding Collaborative Achievement for Composers for Ticktock Minutes PBS educational public service announcements.
Winner of a 1998 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the Outstanding Collaborative Achievement for Composers for Ticktock Minutes PBS educational public service announcements.
Winner of a 1996 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the Composer Category for the score to the PBS/BBC Film/Documentary Richard Wright- Black Boy.
EMMY NOMINATIONS
Nomination for a 2000 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Collaborative Achievement for Composers for Ticktock Minutes PBS educational public service announcements.
Nomination for a 1997 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Collaborative Achievement for Composers for Ticktock Minutes PBS educational public service announcements.
Nomination for a 1995 Southern Regional Emmy Award in the category of Outstanding Collaborative Achievement for Composers for Ticktock Minutes PBS educational public service announcements.
GOLD RECORDS
Gold Record, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), 1978, for Millie Jackson recording Feelin' Like A Woman (Feelin' Bitchy, Spring Records).
Gold Record, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences (NARAS), 1979, for Millie Jackson recording Get It Out'Cha System (Get It Out'Cha System, Polydor).
THEATER
Recipient of the 2009 BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre.
Nomination for a 1998 and 2002 Jerry Bock Musical Theatre ö BMI Foundation Award.
BMI Foundation Grant for artistic promise in theater composition, 1989.
SONG WRITING AWARDS
Semi-Finalist US International Song Writing Competition 2011, Fly Free - pop ballad category
Winner of the US International Song Writing Competition 2005, Data – original jazz song
· Recipient of the 2009 BMI Foundation Jerry Harrington Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Musical Theatre.