His compositional honors include a Koussevitzky Commission from the Library of Congress and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet-the-Composer, the Houston Arts Alliance and the New England Foundation for the Arts. He has been a fellow at the Wellesley Composers Conference, the Tanglewood Institute, the MacDowell Colony and the Djerassi Resident Artists Colony. Recent commissions include a chamber opera about post-traumatic disorder, Ulysses, Home, with a libretto by playwright Neena Beber, works for the SOLI ensemble, the Moores School Percussion Ensemble, and the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, and a six-month installation in Houston’s Market created with artist Jo Ann Fleischhauer and composer Chapman Welch. An album of his vocal music, including his chamber opera The Birth of Something with a libretto by playwright Will Eno, is available on Albany Records.