Margaret Brouwer’s honors include Award in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Meet The Composer Commissioning/USA award, Guggenheim, Ohio Council for the Arts Individual Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, Ford Foundation, Margaret Brouwer Collection at Lincoln Center’s Performing Arts Library for research by scholars, composers and performers. Performances by Detroit, Dallas, Seattle, Liverpool, Rochester, Cabrillo, ACO, Royal Scottish National Orchestras, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Tanglewood Festival, Carnegie Hall, Merkin Hall, Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Kennedy Center, Corcoran Gallery, Philips Gallery, and venues throughout Taiwan, Germany, and UK.

Dr. Brouwer served as head of the composition department and holder of the Vincent K. and Edith H. Smith Chair in Composition at the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1996 to 2008. Residencies include the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, Norton Stevens Fellow at the MacDowell Colony. Recordings of Brouwer’s music can be found on Naxos, New World, CRI, Crystal, Centaur, and Opus One labels.