His numerous awards include a Guggenheim fellowship in music composition, and a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation, and he is a three time nominee for the CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts. He served as the first African-American composer-in-residence with the St. Louis Symphony and was a visiting artist at Harvard University,where he received a Certificate of Recognition from the President of Harvard College for his contribution to the arts. Mr. Fox recently premiered his Monk and Bach Project at Jazz at Lincoln Center, his orchestra piece, “Hear De Lambs A-Cryin’,” commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra for The Spiritual Project, his Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project at Ozawa Concert Hall in Tanglewood,and the world premiere of his piano concerto "Peace Out for Improvised Piano and Orchestra" at Carnegie Hall with the American Composers Orchestra. He has been Composer-in-Residence at Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus (Germany), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Liguria Study Center (Italy), Tanglewood Contemporary Music Festival, among others. His innovative "Jazz Duet Series" has included concerts, recordings, and collaborations with Oliver Lake,John Stubblefield, David Murray, Elliott Sharp, Regina Carter, George Mraz, Al Foster, Stefon Harris, Andrew Cyrille, Terri Lyne Carrington, Hilary Hahn, Christian Scott, Maya Beiser, Dafnis Prieto and poet Quincy Troupe, among others. He has recorded as composer and pianist for New World Records, Evidence Records, Music & Arts, Passin' Thru Records, Naxos Records, Steinway Spirio,

and Wergo Records. His works are published by Margun Music, G. Schirmer, and Leonellis Music. He is a recent recipient of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award in Music and currently is a Martin Luther King Visiting Scholar Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.