Assistant Professor in Music, was awarded funding from the New Music USA Composer Assistance Program to premiere SynchroniCities with the Talea Ensemble. He also won the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s Marie-Josée Kravis Prize for New Music, Commission, and received a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. His commissioned composition Bagatelles premiered at the Heidelberger Frühling festival, and his piece Lyra was premiered by the New York Philharmonic.