Awards

  • Jules Leger Prize for New Chamber Music (Canada) - Shout, Sisyphus, Flock (2018)

  • Barlow Commission (USA) - chamber opera (2018)

  • Joseph S. Stauffer Prize in Music (Canada) (2016)

  • Azrieli Commissioning Prize (Canada) (2015)

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

  • Fromm Music Foundation Commission, Harvard University (USA) (2012)

  • Canada Council Victor Martyn Lynch-Staunton Award in Music (Canada) (2012)

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

  • Hunter Prize (Ontario) (2010)

  • Barlow Commission - symphony orchestra (USA) (2009)

  • Koussevitzky Commission - symphony orchestra (USA) (2007)

  • Chalmers Fellowship (Ontario) (2006)

  • Guggenheim Fellowship (USA) (2005)

  • Barlow Prize for Orchestral Music (USA) (2003)

  • International Rostrum of Composers, Paris - Selected Work (Under 30) and Recommended Work (General Category) (2001)

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

  • CBC National Radio Competition for Young Composers - Grand Prize; 1st Prize (Orchestral); 3rd Prize (Chamber); Audience Choice Award (Canada) (2001)

  • NEM International Forum for Young Composers - Grand Jury Prize and Audience Choice Award (Canada/Australia) (2000)

  • SOCAN Competition for Young Composers - 1st Prize (Orchestral); 3rd Prize (Solo/Duet) (Canada) (2000)

  • Robert Fleming Prize, Canada Council Award for Outstanding Young Composer (Canada) (1999)

  • SOCAN Competition for Young Composers - 1st Prize (Orchestral) (Canada) (1998)

  • SOCAN Competition for Young Composers - 1st Prize (Chamber Music) (Canada) (1997)

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

Nominations

  • Premiere’s Awards for Excellence in the Arts - Protege Prize nomination with R. Murray Schafer (Ontario) (2011)

  • Unger Award nomination - Canada’s national conducting prize (Ontario) (2010)

  • Juno Award nomination - Classical Composition of the Year, This Isn’t Silence (Canada) (2008)

Residencies

  • Yaddo Fellowship, New York (2003)

  • Bogliasco Fellowship, Italy (2004)

  • MacDowell Fellowship, New Hampshire (2005)

  • Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Residency, Japan (2008)