Winner of the 1994 CBC Young Composer's Competition (String Quartet Category)

5th place finish at the 1996 UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers

1st and 2nd place finish at the 1998 Loyola College Competition for Maryland Composers

Short-listed for a music award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1999

Third Place in the Alexander Zemlinsky Prize for Composition, 1999

Awarded the Fleck Fellowship from the Banff Centre for the Arts, 2001

Winner of the International Horn Society Prize for Composition, 2002

Short-listed for special commendation by the Masterprize jury, 2003

Winner of the Centara Corporation, Winnipeg New Music Festival Composer's Competition, 2003

Awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award, from the University of Calgary, 2004

Awarded the Roger Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition, from the University of Toronto, 2005