 "Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion" was subsequently awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1999.Dunkel and the orchestra were the recipients of the 2000 Leonard Bernstein Award for Educational Programming from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and the American Symphony Orchestra League for excellence and innovation in music education.Dunkel concluded his Westchester Philharmonic tenure after the 2007-2008 season.