Student Awards and Prizes
- Sam Wu was awarded first prize in the iSing! Festival's Composition Competition.
- Max Vinetz, Ross S. Griffey and Zev Malina received awards from the 2020 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards Competition. Paul Novak and Nicky Sohn received honorary mentions.
- Paul Novak was awarded Underwood Composers Commission from ACO.
- Paul Novak received a commission from Boston New Music Initiative.
- Sam Wu was a winner of Chorus Austin's 2020 Young Composers Competition
- Sam Wu was a winner of Harp Column's New Music Contest.
- Sam Wu was appointed as the 2020 Cybec Young Composer for the Melbourne Symphony.
- Nicky Sohn, Clare Glackin, Theo Chandler attended Minnesota Orchestra’s 17th annual Composer Institute
- Theo Chandler and Jihyun Kim were winners of the 2019 League of Composers/ISCM Composition Competition.
- Ben Morris received a New York Youth Symphony First Music Commission.
- Ben Morris was a winner of Downbeat Jazz Award Graduate Division.
- Sam Wu was a 2019 EarShot ACO Composer
- Nickly Sohn was a 2020 DeGaetano Composition Institute participant.
- Max Vinetz was a ISCM World Music Days (Estonia), Texas Representative
- Max Vinetz was a 2020 Loadbang Commission Competition Winner.
- Max Vinetz was a 2020 American Viola Society Gardner Composition Competition Winner.
- Alumnus Ben Krause (MMus '15) won first place in the Atlanta Chamber Players Competition. Nicky Sohn (current DMA) was a finalist and Justin Bruns (MMus '04) performed.
Student Recent Placements
- Max Vinetz (2020 MM) - will begin PhD studies at Princeton University, 2020
- Paul Novak (2020 BM) - will begin PhD studies at University of Chicago, 2020
- Erin Graham (2019 MM) - currently enrolled in PhD program at UCSD
- Patrick Lenz (2019 MM) - currently enrolled in DMA program at University of Indiana
- Niko Yamamoto (2019 MM) - currently in PhD program at Brandeis University
- Moni Jasmine Guo (2018 MM) - currently enrolled in PhD program at UCLA