Winner of several competitions: National Composition Competition of the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the SABAM Prize for composition, the Juilliard Composers Composition
Collaborated with pop singer Paul Michiels and jazz guitarist Philip Catherine in “It’s a Gas” and is pianist in “Bernstein meets Broadway” together with soprano Hanne Roos
Received a fellowship from the Belgian Amercian Educational Foundation and the C.V. Starr Doctoral Fellowship