Composition

B.M., University of Houston; M.M., Eastman School of Music; M.M.A. and D.M.A., Yale University. Compositions have won numerous awards, including the Rome Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, Barlow Prize, Charles Ives' Fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Columbia-Bearns Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship to France, and six ASCAP Morton Gould Prizes. His music has been performed by several orchestras, including the Atlanta, Houston, National, Brooklyn, Monte-Carlo, Oregon, Madison, and Fort Worth symphony orchestras, as well as chamber groups like Speculum Musicae, the Cassatt, Alexander, Muir, Henschel, Cuartetto Latinoamericano string quartets, the Absolute Ensemble, SONYC. Composer-in-residence with the California Symphony and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Current projects include a viola concerto for Kim Kashkashian and the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, a ballet for the American Ballet Theater, and an opera for the Moores School of Music. Faculty, The Juilliard School.