He has won countless awards, including a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2007-2008 Frederic A. Juilliard/ Walter Damrosch Rome Prize, which brought him to the American Academy in Rome for a year. He has been in residence at the Aaron Copland House, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and Bogliasco, and has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, and the Aspen Music Festival. His music has been performed in the United States, Germany, Italy and Holland. His wind ensemble, Espresso, was performed at Carnegie Hall in 2004. He has numerous large commissions in the works, including a 2009 Meet the Composer commission for the Knights Ensemble in New York. He is currently the Artistic Director of the MATA Festival of Contemporary Music and lives in New York City. For more information, visit his website.