- (2022) – Grand Prize, New York Youth Symphony’s First Music Commission (chamber)
- (2022) – First Prize, American Viola Society Gardner Composition Competition for …under this blue of my land
- (2022) – First Prize, Lake George Music Festival Composition Competition
- (2021) – First Prize Chorus Austin Young Composer Competition 2021 for Golī az dast beraft
- (2021) – ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (honorable mention) for At any rate II
- (2021) – First Prize Winner loadbang Commission Competition 2021 for At any rate II. باقی مانده “what remains”
- (2021) – Selected for CULTIVATE Fellowship from Copland House
- (2020) – Banff Centre Residency – Opera in the 21st Century | Virtual Residency
- (2020) – National Sawdust: New Works Commission supporting new work for JACK Quartet
- (2020) – First Prize Winner for Institute for Choral Creativity Competition for Golī az dast beraft
- (2020) – Thailand International Composers Competition Rapee Sagarik Composition Prize
- (2020) – Robert Black Foundation Award supporting a new site-specific commission for the Moab Festival
- (2019) – IDEA Opera Grant from Opera America in support of The Veil
- (2019) – Emergence Fellowship with Guerilla Opera
- (2019) – Boston Choral Ensemble Commission Competition (Honorable Mention)
- (2019) – ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (finalist) for his piece Dinner for Three
- (2019) – Selected as Emerging Artist by the Eurasia Festival
- (2019) – New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble – Commission Competition Winner
- (2018) – Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Residency (Choral Art Program 2019)
- (2018) – Cornell Council for the Arts – Biennial Award for new work with International Contemporary Ensemble
- (2018) – Beth Morrison Projects: Next Generation composer fellow
- (2017) – VocalEssence ReMix emerging composer fellow
- (2017) – P. Bruce Blair Award in Composition from the Peabody Conservatory
- (2017) – Composer Fellow for The Intimacy of Creativity 2017 [IC2017] coordinated by Bright Sheng
- (2016) – Winner of The Esoterics’ 2017 POLYPHONOS Award (National Composer)
- (2016) – Composer-In-Residence for the 2016 ICon Arts Academy: Sibiu, Romania
- (2016) – First Prize Winner of the Prix d’Été XX (2015-2016) for his piece Four Short Dreams
- (2016) – Internship in Production at the 2016 Ojai Musical Festival
- (2016) – Composer and Vocalist Fellow for the 2016 Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium
- (2016) – ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Award (finalist) for his piece Hāl: Chahārgāh
- (2014) – Second Prize Winner of the 1st Annual Busan Choral International Composition Competition
- (2014) – Finalist in Chanticleer’s International Student Composer Competition with his piece Delbaré
- (2014) – Finalist in the 2014 SCI/ASCAP Commission Competition with his piece Four Short Dreams
- (2014) – One of six winners in the 2014 Cambiata Composition Initiative with his piece Mosjdeh beh bolbol dehid
- (2014) – Second Place Winner of the 2014 Texas Young Composers Competition with his piece Hāl: Chahārgāh
Daniel Sabzghabaei 