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Awards and Honors
2008
- McKnight Artist Fellowship for Performing Musicians
MetLife Creative Connections Grant from the Meet The Composer Inc. in New York.
2007
The St Paul Listens from the American Composers Forum
Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
Chinese Heritage Foundation Grant.
Cultural Community Partnership Grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board
Winner of 2007 Essentially Choral reading program by American Composers Forum and VocalEssence
MetLife Creative Connections Grant from the Meet The Composer Inc. in New York.
2006
- Creative Connections award from the Meet The Composer Inc. in New York.
- Encore award from the American Composers Forum
2005
- Creative Connections
(formerly The Meet The Composer Fund) from Meet The Composer Inc. in New York.
- Emerging Composer Commission from the Jerome Foundation.
- Subito award from the American Composers Forum
2004
- Bush Artist Fellowship for Traditional and Folk Arts
- Artist Initiative Grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board
2003
- Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
2002
- Commission from Walker Art Center for new works for "Gao
Hong and Friends Around the World" concert.
- Emerging Composer Commission from the Jerome Foundation.
2001
- McKnight Artist Fellowship for Performing Musicians
- Commission from Ragamala Music and Dance Theater for Transposed Heads.
2000
- LIN (Leadership Initiatives in Neighborhoods) Grant from The St. Paul
Companies
- Commission from Twin Cities Public Television to compose and perform on the
soundtrack of six-episode series Made In China.
- Commission from Theater Mu to compose music for play Song of the Pipa, based
on Gao Hong's own life story and the life of Bai Juyi.
1998
- Received funding from the American Composers Forum's Performance Incentive
Fund
- Included in Peoples' Publishing's Dictionary of Chinese Musicians
1997
- McKnight Artist Fellowship for Performing Musicians
- Artist Assistance Fellowship from Minnesota State Arts Board
- Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant
- Asian-Pacific Award from Council on Asian-Pacific Minnesotans
- Composers Commissioning Program Award from American Composers Forum
1996
- Received funding through Walker Art Center Community Partnership Fund for
performances with Western orchestras and educational workshops administered
by International Friendship Through the Performing Arts
- Received funding from the American Composers Forum's Performance Incentive
Fund
- Included in The Dictionary of Contemporary Music Notables
- Featured in the book Famous People From Henan Province
1989
- awarded International Art Cup (Beijing)
1984
- First Prize in Hebei Professional Young Music Performers Competition