AWARDS AND HONORS (SELECTED)
2010 – Winner, Great Performer of Illinois Award
2006 – Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, Illinois Humanities Council
2006 – Inducted as Honorary Member, National Association of Negro Musicians
2002 – Nominee, Peabody Award (for radio performance featuring works of living composers)
1999 – Chicagoan of the Year, Chicago Tribune
1998 – Nominee, National Public Radio Heritage Award (for Violin Concertos by Black Composers of the 18th and 19th Centuries album)
1997 – Classical Hall of Fame, Fanfare magazine
1996 – Second Prize, Stulberg National String Competition
1995 – Chicagoan of the Year, Chicago Magazine
1993 – Paganini Caprice Prize, Paganini International Violin Competition, Genoa, Italy
1993 – Bronze Medal, Queen Elisabeth International Violin Competition, Brussels, Belgium
1992 – Gold Medal, J.S. Bach International Violin Competition, Leipzig, Germany (first American and youngest winner)
1992 – Second Prize, Fritz Kreisler International Violin Competition, Vienna
1992 – Second Prize and Paganini Caprice Prize, Joseph Szigeti International Violin Competition, Budapest
1990 – First Prize, Society of American Musicians Music Contest, Young Artist Division
1989 – First Prize, Seventeen Magazine and General Motors National Concerto Competition
1985 – First Prize, Chicago Symphony Orchestra/ Illinois Bell/ WTTW Illinois Young Performers Competition