Honors
Awards received by Sartor include the American Bandmasters Association's Ostwald Prize for Symphonic Wind Ensemble Music, the National Fine Arts Award, a New Music for Young Ensembles composition prize, a “highly commended” award in England’s Oare String Orchestra's Third Annual International Music for Strings Composition Contest, and twenty-four consecutive ASCAP awards for compositions which hold a unique prestige value. He was a Finalist in both the Columbia Symphony Orchestra’s American Composer Competition and the Fauxharmonic Orchestra's Adagio Composition Contest, and the First Prize winner in the Burlington (VT) Chamber Orchestra’s Composer Competition. He received Third Place in the Choral Composition Division and Finalist status in the Orchestral Composition Division of the 2012 American Prize.
Sartor was inducted as a National Patron of Delta Omicron, an international professional music fraternity on July 17, 2009 in honor of his achievements in composing and conducting.
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