Awards

Danish Design Centre-- "ID98 Prize" 1998
First LEGO CD-ROM v1.1 - Technic 8299 (developed by YAV Interactive Media)
The Scandinavian Interactive Media Event (SIME) -- "Best Scandinavian CD-ROM of 1997" 1997
First LEGO CD-ROM v1.0 - Technic 8299 (developed by YAV Interactive Media)
Point Survey -- "Top 5% of the Web" 1995
YAV HomePage (http://www.yavelow.com)
America Online -- featured in "Interesting Sites" at launch of AOL WWW Client 1995
Family Scrapbook (http://www.yav.com/docs/Scrapbok.html)
NBC Superchannel -- featured in NBC teletext for first week in March 1995
COUNTDOWN -- First Online Opera (http://www.yav.com/docs/CnDnIntro.html)
VIBE Magazine "Best of the Net" -- December, 1994
COUNTDOWN -- First Online Opera (http://www.yav.com/docs/CnDnIntro.html)
Computer Press Association "8th Annual Computer Press Awards" -- Best Advanced How-To Book 1993
The Macworld Music and Sound Bible
Southwest Virginia Opera Society "New One-Act Opera Competition" -- First Prize 1988
COUNTDOWN (Opera for the Nuclear Age -- in one act)
National Association for Multi-Image -- Gold Medal 1987
Sound Track for "Reliability and Risk: Computers in the Nuclear Age"
Rencontres Internationales du Chant Choral de Tours -- Required Competition Work (France) 1982
DONA NOBIS PACEM (SSAA choir)
Rencontres Internationales du Chant Choral de Tours -- Grand Prix à l'Unanimitè (France) 1981
DONA NOBIS PACEM (SSAA choir)
The Francis Boott Choral Music Award 1977
THE HORSE WITH VIOLIN IN MOUTH (SSAA choir and string orchestra)
The New York Musicians' Club Prize -- The Bohemians 1975
AN EXPLANATION OF ONE MECHANICAL MAN (clarinet and cello)
The New American Music Award -- Honorable Mention 1975
THE HORSE WITH VIOLIN IN MOUTH (SSAA choir and string orchestra)
Victor Herbert A.S.C.A.P. Award -- Honorable Mention 1975
E-PRIME (brass quintet)
Concorso Internationale de Composizione -- Finalist (Italy) 1975
AXIS (large orchestra)
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Prize 1974
SONEPTUA and NERO'S TOMB (string quartet; trombone quartet)
Devorah Nadworney Award 1974
FOUR SONGS OF SAPPHO (mezzo and piano)
Victor Herbert A.S.C.A.P. Award -- Third Prize 1974
SONEPTUA (string quartet)
National Brass Conference Award 1974
NERO'S TOMB (trombone quartet)
International Trombone Association Competition -- Finalist 1974
NERO'S TOMB (trombone quartet)
Shenandoah Conservatory Composition Competition -- First Prize 1974
MOMENTS (wind trio)
Composers Forum -- Donnell Library Concert 1974
SONEPTUA, SERMON, I'LL BE SEEING YOU, FOUR SONGS OF SAPPHO (chamber works )
Carnegie Mellon Competition -- Honorable Mention 1973
MOMENTS, INTROSPECTIONS, DIMENSION-L (chamber works)

Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants

Meet the Composer Grant -- Massachusetts 1986
NEWCOMP performance of IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS
Cummington Community of the Arts Fellowship 1985
Massachusetts Artists Foundations Fellowship -- Finalist 1983
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1981
For composition of: THE PASSION OF VINCENT VAN GOGH (opera in three acts)
Camargo Foundation Fellowship 1981
Residency in Cassis, France for composition of: THE PASSION OF VINCENT VAN GOGH
Centre Acanthes Fellowship -- The Conservatoire Darius Milhaud 1979 & 1981
For study with Gyorgy Ligeti and Mauricio Kagel in Aix-en-Provence, France
Conservatoire de Musique Américan Tuition Scholarship 1980
For study in Fontainebleau, France
Darmstadt Summer Course for New Music Fellowship 1978
For study in Darmstadt, Germany
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Grant 1977
Sponsored by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science
Research Council. For the study of composition, theory, and pedagogy in Hungary
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities -- Departmental Nomination 1976
Nominated by the Harvard University Department of Music
MacDowell Colony Fellowship 1975 - 76
Composers' Conference Fellowship 1975
Harvard University Grant-in-Aid (Full tuition and living expenses) 1974 - 77
Sidney B. Heywood Fellowship 1974 - 77
Walter W. Naumburg Fellowship 1974 - 77
Marion and Reginald Sweet Fellowship 1974 - 77
Boston University Tuition Scholarship 1970