Awards

2018

  • Jules Leger Prize for New Chamber Music (Canada) - Shout, Sisyphus, Flock

  • Barlow Commission (USA) – work for chamber opera

2016

  • The Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Music (Canada)

2015

  • The Azrieli Commissioning Prize (Canada)

  • Juno Award (Canada) – Classical Composition of the Year, 2015 (Airline Icarus)

2012

  • Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University (USA), commission award

  • Canada Council's Victor Martyn Lynch-Stauton Award in Music (Canada)

2011

  • Premio Fedora (Italy), 2011 - Airline Icarus - international prize for new chamber opera

2010

  • Hunter Prize (Ontario)

2009

  • Barlow Commission (USA) – work for symphony orchestra

2007

  • Koussevitzky Commission (USA) - work for symphony orchestra

2006

  • Chalmers Fellowship (Ontario)

2005

  • Guggenheim Fellowship (USA)

2003

  • The Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music (USA)

2001

  • Selected work, Under 30 Category, International Rostrum of Composers (Paris), 2001

  • Recommended Work, General Category, International Rostrum of Composers (Paris) 2001

  • ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award (USA) 2001

  • Grand Prize, CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers (Canada), 2001

  • 1st Prize, Orchestral Music Category, CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers(Canada), 2001

  • 3rd Prize, Chamber Music Category, CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers (Canada), 2001

  • Audience Choice Award, Orchestral Music Category, CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers (Canada), 2001

2000

  • Grand Jury Prize, NEM International Forum for Young Composers (Canada, Australia) 2000

  • Audience Choice Award, NEM International Forum for Young Composers(Canada, Australia), 2000

  • 1st Prize, Socan Competition for Young Composers, Orchestral Music Category (Canada), 2000

  • 3rd Prize, Socan Competition for Young Composers, Solo or Duet Category (Canada), 2000

1999

  • Robert Flemming Prize, Canada Council award for most outstanding young composer (Canada), 1999

1998

  • 1st Prize, Socan Competition for Young Composers, Orchestral Music Category (Canada), 1998

1997

  • 1st Prize, Socan Competition for Young Composers, Chamber Music Category (Canada), 1997

1994

  • 3rd Prize, CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers, Moncton, New Brunswick (Canada), 1994

Nominations:

  • Premiere's Awards for Excellence in the Arts Nomination (Ontario) - protege prize with Murray Schafer, 2011

  • Unger Award Nomination (Ontario), Canada's only conducting prize, 2010

  • Juno Nomination (Canada) – Classical Composition of the Year, 2008 (This Isn't Silence)

Residencies:

  • Yaddo Fellow, New York, 2003

  • Bogliasco Fellow, Italy, 2004

  • MacDowell Fellow,New Hampshire, 2005

  • Residency in Japan, JUSFC, 2008