Dave received a grant from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music to produce his fourth album Rivers in the Desert.

Dave is selected for 2024-2026 cohort of the Texas Touring Roster. Interested presenters can receive state grant funds to present Dave at their venue, festival or school.

Dave was selected for the 2024 cohort of the Performing Arts Discovery program of the Western Arts Alliance. He will perform a live showcase at the organization’s annual conference in 2024 and a virtual showcase video is stored here for interested presenters.

Dave received a second competitive touring grant from South Arts to take the ‘New American Hymnal’ Quartet on a short tour through Florida.

Dave is one of twelve composers selected to receive the 2022 New Jazz Works commissioning grant from Chamber Music America, funded through the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This grant supports the creation, premiere, and recording of a new extended work over the grant period (2023-2025).

Dave is named a US Fulbright Scholar and will be teaching and researching in Cairo, Egypt for the spring 2022 semester. The grant is affiliated with Cairo Conservatoire and the Binational Fulbright Commission of Egypt.

The Dave Meder ‘Songs and Stories’ trio returns to the road for a Southeast US tour thanks to a “Jazz Road Tours” grant from South Arts (funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation with additional support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation).

“This Road,” from the album Passage, was named a WINNER (2nd Prize) in the 2018 International Songwriting Competition. There were over 19,000 entries in the ISC in 2018. Listen to “This Road.”

Dave is a winner in the 2020 ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Awards, run by the ASCAP Foundation. The winning piece, “Break Points,” comes from the 2019 album Passage. See the release in JazzTimes or in NewMusicBox.

Dave is selected as a semi-finalist in the upcoming Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition. See the press release from Nate Chinen (NPR).