Awards

Grants

2023
Canada Council for the Arts, Digital Greenhouse, Ottawa, ON

$48000, Digital Greenhouse, to develop and produce No Need to Vanish (NNTV), an online learning resource for electronic music composers and producers

2023
Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad Grant, Ottawa, ON

$1750, Arts Abroad Grant to attend the Sound of Freedom concert and recording session in Huston, Texas, January 2024

2021
Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create Grant, Ottawa, ON

$31,800 “Concept to Realization” award to record, produce, and publish an album of my compositions

2020
Ontario Arts Foundation, Kathleen McMorrow Music Award, Toronto, ON

$7,000 award for my opera Vanishing Point, commissioned via Mécénat Musica Prix 3 Femmes

2020
Ontario Arts Council, Music Recording Projects Grant, Toronto, ON

$4,000 to record Maku for Pierrot ensemble, fixed media and soprano, Toronto, ON

2020
Ontario Arts Council, Music Creation Projects Grant, Toronto, ON

$16,000 to compose Vanishing Point for co-production by Opera 5, SMCQ, Queen’s University Watershed Festival and Opera McGill

2019
Ontario Arts Council, Production and Presenter Projects Grant, Toronto, ON

$15,000 to support $32,000 production costs of the Dawn Initiative

2017
Ontario Arts Council, Music Creation Projects Grant, Toronto, ON

$7,500 to compose A Cup of Sin, a 15-minute work for mezzo-soprano and electric guitar quartet, premiered by Instruments of Happiness in collaboration with New Music Concerts, Toronto, ON

2015
Toronto Arts Council, Music Creation Projects Grant, Toronto, ON

$3,500 to support production costs of Israeli-Iranian Musical Initiative

Prizes and Competitions

2021
Nominee, Johanna Metcalf Performing Arts Prize, Metcalf Foundation, Toronto, ON
2018
Finalist, K.M. Hunter Artist Award, K.M. Hunter Charitable Foundation, Toronto, ON
2016
Ann H Atkinson Prize in Composition, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON
2015
First Prize, MacMillan singers Composition Competition, Toronto, ON
2014
Top Prize, Violet Archer Composition Prize, Toronto, ON
2011
First Prize, Timothy Munro Solo Flute composition, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL
2011
First Prize, CCPA Wind Ensemble Composition Contest, Roosevelt University, Chicago IL

Academic Awards

2019
Tecumesh Sherman Rogers Graduating Award, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON ($25,000)
2018
Theodoros Mirkopoulos Fellowship in Composition, University of Toronto
2017
Irene R. Miller and Anoush Khoshkish Fellowship in Music, University of Toronto
2017
Theodoros Mirkopoulos Fellowship in Composition, University of Toronto
2014
John Weinzweig Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto
2014
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto ($15,000)
2013
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarship ($17,500)
2012-2019
University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship, University of Toronto
2009-2012
Chicago College of Performing Arts Scholarship, Roosevelt University

Parisa-Awards