Awards
Elected to American Bandmasters Association: 2008
Elected to Who's Who in America: 2008, 2009
Elected to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers: 2005-2006
Elected to Phi Kappa Phi – Honorary Scholar’s Fraternity: 2004
Awarded Ithaca College President's Recognition Award, 1998, for service to Ithaca College
Awarded Summer Scholarship, 1996, to study conducting with Eugene Corporon and Allen McMurray at CBDNA Conducting Summer Session, Boulder, CO
Awarded Summer Research Grant, 1995, for research on the biography of Patrick Conway
Elected 1992 Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia-Delta Chapter Musician of the Year
National Band Association - Wisconsin Chapter Citation of Excellence, January, 1987
University of Wisconsin Teaching Fellowship, Fall, 1986
Elected to Phi Delta Kappa - Honorary Education Fraternity
Elected to Pi Kappa Lambda - Honorary Music Fraternity
Twice awarded University Fellowship in Music, University of Illinois, 1978, 1982