 In 2006, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in music.In 2010 she received a Meet The Composer Commissioning/USA award to compose "Path at Sunrise, Masses of Flowers" which was premiered by the Cleveland Women's Symphony.In 2011, Brouwer founded Blue Streak Ensemble, a mixed chamber group devoted to performing her work and the works of other living composers, alongside arrangements of core repertoire.