Career Highlights
- National Endowment for the Art Fellowship in Jazz Composition 1979
- 2 time Fulbright Senior Specialist in American Studies: 2013 Fellowship and 2016 Fellowship
- 5 GRAMMYS with Christopher Cross 1980
- Academy Award Best Song – Theme from “Arthur” with Christopher Cross 1981
- Lifetime Voting Member for the "GRAMMY Awards", and honored by the GRAMMY IN THE SCHOOLS PROGRAM, National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc.
- ASCAP PLUS award as a composer is given to members with prestige catalogs.
- Hank has over 10,000 international, national, state and regional performances, classical, jazz, pop/rock, Broadway, nightclubs, and symphony.
- Department of Defense contracted trainer for professional Army/Air Force career musicians.
- William Morris Talent Agency featured jazz pianist, live with “La La Land – In Concert” with the Austin Symphony June 2017 and San Antonio Symphony March 2018
- Chair and Founder of H Project Performing Arts Association (HPPAA), a 501 C3 non-profit organization with a mission to promote contemporary and world music.
- Dean’s Seminar Award 2015 “Creativity – Where Does It Come From?”
- First place in the 2010 NACUSA National Association of Composers competition
- Hank has composed music for a feature length movie (“Scary Movie” 1992 winner Worldfest International Film Festival), a documentary (“Lady Bird Johnson – birth, life, state and national contributions” – commissioned by the U.S. National Park Service), a ballet (“Ritú Del Sol Andes: Diem”– commissioned by Ballet Austin), a musical (“Walk With Me” – commissioned by the Mary Moody Northen Theatre), a music poetry (“5 Moods In Poetry” – performed at 16th Annual "Poetry at Round Top"), and musical arranger (“Jesus Christ Superstar - 2001” – commissioned by Broadway Across America)
- Principal Pianist - Philip Glass' "Icarus At The Edge Of Time" 2014
- Grantsmanship –NEA, Fulbright, MacDowell, ASCAP, GRAMMY, New Music USA Composer Assistance, NACUSA National Association of Composers, and JCOI – Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. 2018 NEA Art Works Grant.
