AWARDS, PRIZES, FELLOWSHIPS etc
2007
Shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Music - one of four musicians.

2006
Finalist in the McCombe Brass Band March Composition Competition

2005
Fellowship - Ligurian Studies Center, Bogliasco, Italy

2003
Fellowship - Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy

2002
Federation Flourish nominated for 2002 APRA/AMC Orchestral Work of the Year

2001
Best Composition Dark Side Symphony #5 – Victorian State Award - AMC/APRA

1999
Don Banks Award — Australia Council

ABC Recording of the Year — Listener's Choice Award for Bright Tracks

Visiting Professor (Spring Semester) - Indiana University School of Music

1998
Fellowship - Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy

Fellowship - Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy

Explorations Opera Project Grant

Michelle Morrow Composition Prize for I touched your glistening tears

1997
Jean Bogan Prize for solo piano work The Dying of the Light

1994
Nominated for an Australian Performing Rights Association Award (APRA) - Contemporary Classical Composition of the Year for In A Brilliant Blaze

Paul Lowin Song Cycle Prize for Bright Tracks for Soprano & String Trio

1993
Nominated for an Australian Performing Rights Association Award (APRA) - Contemporary Classical Composition of the Year for Voices From The Fire.

Visiting Fellow (Jan-May) - Australia-New Zealand Studies Center, Pennsylvania State University, USA

1992
Australian Research Council Large Grant - two year grant to research Australian music - biographical dictionary of Australian composers

1991
Australian Performing Rights Association Award (APRA) - Contemporary Classical Composition of the Year for Toward The Shining Light

Special Initiatives Grant - The University of Melbourne to research Australian music

Asian Music Festival - Deserts Bloom...Lakes Die performed at Seoul, Korea

Publishing contract signed with G. Schirmer (Australia) - the first Australian composer to sign with this company.

1990
ISCM World Music Days - And No Birds Sing performed at Oslo.

Asian Music Festival - Battlements performed at Sendai, Japan

Two National Critics' Circle 'Sounds Australian Awards' for: Stars In A Dark Night — Best Australian Orchestral Work 1989 and Best Victorian Work 1989
Stars In A Dark Night also received two awards for performance by the Melbourne Sym Orchestra

International Rostrum of Composers, Paris - Stars In A Dark Night - Symphony No.2 was selected by the ABC as Australia's entry

Composer Fellowship to attend the inaugural 1990 Pacific Composers' Conference in Sapporo, Japan

One Act Opera Award – Awarded jointly by The Sydney Metropolitan Opera Company and the Australian Music Centre - to compose Fahrenheit 451

1989
DEET National Priority Reserve Fund grant of $87,500 to develop curriculum in courses for a specialization in Australian Music Studies

1988
ISCM World Music Days - Beast From Air performed at Hong Kong

Inaugural Composer In Residence - Melbourne Symphony Orchestra - Grant from the Australia Council, Performing Arts Board

1987
Equal First Prize - Hambacher International Composers Competition, West Germany for Tuba Concerto

Australian Performing Rights Association Award (APRA) for Most Performed Australasian Serious Work for The Mountain

1985
Second Prize - Stroud Festival, England, International Composition Competition for Aureole 3

1984
ABC/AMC Fellowship - National Orchestral Composers School, Sydney

Patenring Scholarship to attend Internationale Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik, Darmstadt, Germany

Albert H. Maggs Award for Composition, Melbourne

1982
Finalist - Trombone Ensemble International Composition Competition, USA for Aurora Australis

1981
First Prize - Orchestral Work Section, Townsville Pacific Festival National Composers Competition for Festive Overture

Special Prize - Don Cowell National Composers Competition, Melbourne for Laudes

1980
Johannes Smit Prize - Memphis State University Prize for Composition, USA