His 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. His compositions include the chamber opera The Birth of Something with a libretto by playwright Will Eno, and Maternity for soprano and orchestra, with a libretto by neuroscientist and author David Eagleman.