Awards
- American Academy of Arts and Letters composition prize
- 2001 Guggenheim Fellow
- 1996-1998 Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence
- 2002 Rome Prize of the American Academy in Rome.
- 2008 Opera Fund Awards, The Minnesota Opera: Silent Night
- 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Silent Night: Opera in Two Acts
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