Named Professor of Music Emeritus at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Awarded hhe 2025 American Prize Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music in the Professional Composers Category for his Requiem for SATB chorus (divisi), soloists (SATB), organ and string orchestra
Inducted into the Hall of Fame of Garinger High School, Charlotte, North Carolina in 2007
Consecutive ASCAP Awards from 1981 to present
Awarded a North Carolina Composer Fellowship for 1999 and 1992
Named, by the American Guild of Organists, 1996 AGO Composer of the Year
Winner of the top Barlow International Composition Competition Award for 1989 (“changing perceptions” & EPITAPH for chorus and piano)
First American composer to have music performed at the thirty-five year old Czech Festival of Choral Arts (1992), Jihlava, Czech Republic
Winner of a 1986 Aliénor Harpsichord Composition Award (THE BREAKERS POUND)
Sponsored by Meet the Composer for 1999, 1995, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981
Three-time recipient of the Hinda Honigman Composers Cup Award (N.C.) for 1992, 1988, 1985
Winner of the competition for 1985 North Carolina Music Teacher’s National Association’s yearly commission
Winner of the 1984 Omaha Symphony Association’s New Music Award (IN THE AUTUMN DAYS)
Selected for residencies in 1984 and 1981 to the Charles Ives Center for American Music
Awarded the 1981 Howard Hanson Award from the Eastman School of Music (PRISM OF LIFE for orchestra)
Awarded Honorable Mention in the 1981 Kennedy Center Friedheim Awards (CONSTELLATIONS, a Concerto for Organ and Percussion)
Awarded a Composer’s Assistance Grant from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts, 1978
