Awards and Honors
Dr. Maslanka has received five residence fellowships at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire (1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, and 1982), as well as generous grants from the University of Connecticut Research Foundation, the American Music Center, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, the State University of New York Research Foundation, and the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He has earned the National Endowment for the Arts Composer Award three times (1974, ‘75, and ‘89) (Carl Fischer 2005). In 1999, he was awarded the National Symphony Orchestra regional composer-in-residence award. Since 1980, Maslanka has served as a guest composer for over 100 universities, music festivals, and conferences (Maslanka 2005).
He is a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity (Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity 2011).
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