2008 Best paper prize: Music Analysis's 25th Anniversary Competition (paper presented at the Society for Music Analysis in Cardiff, UK, September 2008)

2002 Honorable mention, Eastman School of Music's Jerald Graue award for excellence in musicology

2001 Eastman School professional development grant to travel to Schoenberg summer course in Vienna and Mödling, Austria

1997 Mellon, Woodrow Wilson fellowship for Humanistic Studies, for graduate study at Columbia University (declined award in order to attend the Eastman School of Music)