His honors include a commission from the Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University. He serves on many boards and ongoing committees including the New York chapter of the League of Composers/International Society for Contemporary Music, the Houston Symphony, Chamber Music Houston, the Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival, the Perry R. Bass Fellowship Selection Committee, the Louis Moreau Gottschalk Institute, the Wellesley Composers Conference, Speculum Musicae, the Advisory Board of the University of Denver Lamont School of Music (and the Lamont Society Honorary Board), The Shepherd Society, Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine, the National Center for Human Performance, and the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Houston.