Awards, Honors, Residencies and Fellowships | Peter Michael von der Nahmer

2015	ASCAPlus Award, USA
2014	Society of Composers (SCI) Region II Student Mix Tape, Selection: Sprout, New York The New Music Conflagration – Sounds by the Sea, Selection: Circuit, Florida Dynamik Music Festival, Selection: Passing-Over, New York Conference Funding Grant, New York University
2013 – 2015	Tisch School of the Arts Departmental Fellowship Graduate Musical Theatre Writing, New York University
2012	Selected for the German/American composition commission project „CAGE 100 – Party Pieces Project“ with performances in New York and Leipzig
2011	“California International Theatre Festival” Selection 2011 with the Opera „El Canguro“, Libretto: Cynthia Lewis Ferrell “Kinder zum Olymp!“-Award for the european school project „MP3-DNA“ in collaboration with „Mehr Musik!“ ASCAPlus award 2011
2010	3. Prize at the Berlin Opera Prize 2010 with the short opera “20 Minuten” ASCAPlus award 2010 2. Prize at the composition contest of the Oberschwäbischer Chorverband for „Missa Brevis“
2009	ASCAPlus award 2009 Five months Residency at the Herrenhaus Edenkoben in Germany
2008	1. Prize and Special Prize for the best compositon for harp solo at the ISME-IVME 2nd International Composition Contest 2008 2. Prize at the 20. Siegburger composition contest Guest composer at the Bar Harbor Music Festival
2007	Encore Grant / American Composers Forum for Rhythm some Blues Winner of the Debut String Orchestra Division of the Bellevue Youth Symphony Orchestra’s C. Keith Birkenfeld Composition Competition with Powerwalk Recipient of a Jerome Foundation grant Winner of the “Renée B. Fisher Composer Awards” Advanced round judging in the 2006 International Songwriting Competition with You Can Trust in Me 2007 ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop
2006	Finalist of the “FAO’s 2006 International Composition Competition” with Persiflamia Winner of the “Masterworks Prize” with The Monk and the Fish present Composer in Residence, Emrick Production Group Composer in Residence, Villa Park High School
2005	Winner of the Villa Park High School Chamber Music Competition Susan and Ford Schuman Award, Aspen Music Festival and School Maestro’s Circle scholarship, Aspen Music Festival and School
2004	Dr. J. Howland Auchinloss Prize, Honorable Mention for The Monk and the Fish, Society for New Music Scholarship for the 14th Annual O’Neill Puppetry Conference, Waterford, CT
2001	Composer in Residence, Age of harp
1999	3rd Prize for the song Geborgenheit, Musical Express
1994	Reached finale round of the rock band competition with two songs of the „Authentic Dreams“: „Rock in Bayern“ and „Running for the best“