for three 2006 Grammy awards: Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Best Instrumental Composition, and Best Arrangement, winning for best instrumental composition, "Into the Light". Awards and honors 2003 New Composition Grant, Chamber Music America 2006 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, "Into the Light" 2006 Grammy Award, Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist, "What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?" 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship 2011 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition, "The Path Among the Trees" 2013 Doris Duke Artist Award 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters Composer Award 2015 Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals, "New York Tendaberry" 2018 Grammy Award for Best Jazz Instrumental Album, Rebirth; Childs' solo on the track "Dance of Shiva" was also nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Improvised Jazz Solo. Classical commissions 1993 Los Angeles Philharmonic,"Tone Poem for Holly" (Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor) 1994 Los Angeles Philharmonic, "Fanfare for the United Races of America" (EsaPekka Salonen conductor) 1995 Akron Symphony Orchestra, "The Distant Land" (Alan Balter conductor) 1997 Akron Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, "Just Like Job" (Alan Balter conductor) 1997 Dorian Wind Quintet, "A Day in the Forest of Dreams" (Billy Childs piano, with Dorian Wind Quintet) 2004 Los Angeles Philharmonic, "For Suzanne" (Dianne Reeves vocal soloist, Billy Childs piano soloist) 2005 Los Angeles Master Chorale, "The Voices of Angels" (Grant Gershon conductor) 2007 American Brass Quintet, "2 Elements" (Billy Childs piano, with American Brass Quintet) 2009 Pacific Serenades, "String Quartet No. 1" 2007 Fontana Chamber Arts, "The Path Among the Trees" (Billy Childs JazzChamber Ensemble with Ying Quartet) 2010 Detroit Symphony, "Concerto for Violin and Orchestra" (Regina Carter, soloist) 2012 Ying Quartet, "Awakening String Quartet No. 2" (The Ying Quartet) Jazz commissions 1992 Grenoble Jazz Festival, "Chamber Orchestra Music" (Steve Houghton soloist) 1994 Monterey Jazz Festival, "Concerto Piano and JazzChamber Orchestra" (Billy Childs soloist) 1997 Mancini Institute, "The Winds of Change" (Roy Hargrove soloist) 2001 Kuumbwa Jazz Society, "Into the Light" (Billy Childs JazzChamber Ensemble) 2004 Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, "The Fierce Urgency of Now" (Wynton Marsalis musical director) 2010 Monterey Jazz Festival, "Music for Two Quartets" (Kronos Quartet with Billy Childs, Brian Blade, Scott Colley, and Steve Wilson) Discography As leader Source: As sideman With Chris Botti When I Fall In Love (Columbia, 2004)With Bunky Green Healing the Pain (Delos, 1990)With J. J. Johnson and Nat Adderley' The Yokohama Concert (Pablo Live, 1978) Concepts in Blue (Pablo Today, 1981)