 The recipient of numerous prestigious grants and fellowships, Davidson was the first classical composer to receive a $50,000 Pew Fellowship, the largest such grant in the country for which an artist can apply.She has been awarded four Artist's Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, CAP grants from the American Music Center and numerous Meet the Composer grants.Her work, "Transparent Victims" was selected by the American Public Radio as part of the International Rostrum of Composers, held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.