 He was commissioned by Phrenic New Ballet to compose a new piece for choreographer Christine Cox's "Tabula Rasa," and by Kim Arrow for his "Quasimodo in the Outback".He was awarded the APPEX Fellowship in 1999, a six-week inter-cultural residency at UCLA where he collaborated and lived with 30 performing artists from throughout Asia.He also was awarded a three-month residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, CA in 1993.