Keith Hamel. In 2007 Pritchard, Fels and Vatikiotis-Bateson received a Canada Council for the Arts/Natural Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for the development of Digital Ventriloquized Actors (DIVAs) and in 2004 he received an Artist-Researcher grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for work in interactive speech synthesis and performance. In 2005 he was awarded a Killam Teaching Prize in recognition of his abilities and innovations in classroom teaching. He is the Vice-Chair B.C. Region of the Canadian Music Centre and a member of the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Electroacoustic Community.