He recently initiated the new music series Orchard Circle (see www.orchardcircle.com. He has won such awards as the Rome Prize, Guggenheim, American Academy of Arts & Letters’ Academy Award, National Endowment for the Arts, International Sackler Prize, New York Foundation for the Arts, Fulbright, Fromm Foundation, Charles Ives Prize, and International Barlow Prize. His music has been recorded on the labels Chandos, New World Records, and Crystal Records, and published by Theodore Presser Co. He served on the faculties of Juilliard and the University of Virginia.