Douglas Knehans — Grants, Awards and Honors
Fellowships
2008 Australian International Summer Orchestra Institute, Hobart, AUSTRALIA
2007 Premieres of the Season Festival, Kiev, UKRAINE
2006 New Music New Faces Festival, Cracow, POLAND
2005 Incontri di Musica Sacra Contemporanea Fellow, Rome, and L’Aquila ITALY 2002
2005 National Symphony Orchestra featured composer Millennium Stage Series, Washington, DC, USA
2001 Incontri di Musica Sacra Contemporanea Fellow, Rome, ITALY
2000 Czech-American Summer Music Institute Fellow, Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
1993 Pierre Boulez/Carnegie Hall Composers/Conductors Workshop, New York City, USA
1989 MacDowell Colony Fellow, Peterborough, NH, USA
1989
Leighton Artist Colony Fellow, Banff, Alberta, CANADA
1987 Inaugural Victorian Council for the Arts $20,000.00 Composer Fellowship, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA
Grants
1999 National Symphony Orchestra/NEA/Alabama State Arts Council Composer Commission, USA
1998 Research Grants Committee Summer Research Grant, University of Alabama, USA
1998Dean’s Discretionary International Travel Grant (Vienna, AUSTRIA), University of Alabama, USA
1995 Dean’s Discretionary International Travel Grant (Sydney, AUSTRALIA), University of Alabama, USA
1995 SFA Grant, University of Alabama, for Development of WWW site AdaAm, USA
1994 Research Grants Committee Summer Research Grant, University of Alabama, USA
1993 Dean’s Discretionary Recording Grant, University of Alabama, USA
1990 International Travel Grant, The Australian Opera, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
1990 Composer in Residence Grant, Meet the Composer, Inc., Port Washington, NY, USA
1990 Margaret Fairbank Jory Music Copying Grant, American Music Center, NY, USA
1989 Directors Delegation Grant for Travel to the USA and Canada, Australia Council Performing Arts Board, AUSTRALIA
Awards
1993 Woods Chandler Memorial Award for Best Composition in a Larger Form, Yale University, USA
1992 Lucy G. Moses Fellowship to Student of Exceptional Promise, Yale University, USA
1991 Inaugural Luigi Dallapiccola Award for Outstanding Achievement in Composition, Queens College, C.U.N.Y., USA
1990 Schwarz Foundation Scholar, Queens College, C.U.N.Y., USA
Citations
2005 Nominated International Professional of the Year Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 2005
2004 Who’s Who in the World New Providence: Marquis Who’s Who, 2004
1994 Sound Ideas: ‘Australian Composers Born Since 1950:A Guide to Their Music and Ideas’ Ed. Broadstock, Brenton.
Sydney: Australian Music Centre, 1994
1991 Who’s Who in Australasia and the Far East Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1991
1990 A Companion to Music in Australia, Ed. Covell, Roger. Sydney: Cambridge University Press, 1990
1989 International Who’s Who in Music and Musician’s Directory Cambridge: International Biographical Centre, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005
1983 A Handbook of Australian Music Melbourne: Collins Books, 1983
