forrest's choral works have received the ascap morton gould young composer's award, the acda raymond brock award, a meet the composer grant, the university of kansas cius award, the alcm raabe prize. forrest's music has been performed in leading venues around the world including carnegie hall, the lincoln center, npr's "performance today," and on the bbc proms. a review in "the salt lake tribune" referred to forrest's "superb choral writing" and gave as an example his arrangement of "the first noel," which it said was "full of spine-tingling moments." forrest is one of a small number of composers whose works have been included in both "teaching music through performance in choir" and "teaching music through performance in band". perhaps forrest's best known work is "requiem for the living" (2013), having received several hundred performances worldwide. his other major works, "jubilate deo" (2016) and "lux: the dawn from on high" (2018) have also been widely performed.