Awards

Fellowships and Awards:

• Minnesota State Arts Board (2015)

• McKnight Foundation Composer Fellowship (2011)

• Jerome Foundation Composers Commissioning Program Award (2008)

• Jerome Foundation Composers Commissioning Program Award (2004)

• New York State Council on the Arts - Community Arts Partnership Award (2001)

• New York State Council on the Arts - Community Arts Partnership Award (2000)

• Wisconsin State Arts Board Fellowship (1992)

Prize-Winning Works:

• Being Who You Are ~ KidSing Composer's Competition, First Prize: (2000)
  John Lennon Songwriting Contest, Honorable Mention (2000)

• Blessed Be the Flower That Triumphs ~ Athena Festival Almquist Award, First Prize (2009)

• Climb ~ New York Virtuoso Singers Composition Competition, Honorable Mention (2005)

• Even a Fist Was Once an Open Palm ~ Craig and Janet Swan Composer Prize (2002)

• Finally On My Way To Yes ~ Ithaca College Choral Composition Contest, First Prize (2001)

• A Garret of Old Playthings ~ Diana Barnhart American Song Competition, Honorable Mention (2000)

• If You Can Walk You Can Dance ~ Euphonia! Composition Competition, First Prize (2001)

• The Journey ~ Athena Festival Almquist Award, First Prize (2009)

• Praise Wet Snow Falling Early ~ Waging Peace through Singing Project, Highest Honors (2002)

• So Many Corners (soprano, orchestra) ~ National Orchestral Association Reading Fellowship (1989)

• So Many Corners (soprano, piano) ~ National Federation of Music Clubs Devora Nadworney Award (1988)

• Spring Revels ~ Brookline Chorus Composition Competition, First Prize (2000)

• When the Song of the Angels Is Stilled (SATB) ~ One of Creator Magazine's "Honored 10" (2004)

• Where there is Light in the Soul ~ Vincent Brown Silliman Award, Honorable Mention (2006)

• We Remember Them ~ Vincent Brown Silliman Choral Anthem Competition, First Prize (2010)

Other Grants and Funding Sources that have helped Elizabeth do her work

• American Composers Forum Faith Partners Residency (2010-2012)
    for work with Watertown Free Evangelical and Trinity Lutheran Church

• American Composers Forum Encore Performance Grant (2010)
    for work with Kansas City Chorale

• American Music Center Composer Assitance Program Award (2008)
     for work with Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra

• Meet the Composer MetLife Creative Connections Grant (2008)
     for work with Minnesota Philharmonic Orchestra

• Meet the Composer/Creative Connections Grant (2007)
     for work with Perfect Harmony Men's Chorus

• New England Foundation for the Arts Grant (2007)
     for work with Women in Harmony

• American Composers Forum Subito Grant (2006)

• American Music Center Composer Assitance Program Grant (2006)
     for work with Eno River Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

• Jerome Foundation Performance Outreach Grant (2006)
     for work with MUSE

• American Composers Forum Subito Grant (2005)

• Meet the Composer Award (2001)
     for work with OutLoud Chorus of Ithaca

• National Endowment for the Arts Creation and Presentation Grant (2001)
     for work with The Society for New Music

• Meet the Composer Award (1997)
     for work with The Society for New Music

• ASCAPlus / ASCAP Standard Awards (1993-2012)