Richard Brooks Selected as New Music Champion for 2006-2007 by New Music Connoisseur
"Richard Brooks [was awarded] for his energetic enterprise, the establishment and successful realization of Capstone Records, a great medium for the propagation of living compositions, and for his teaching and all of his various activities and offices on behalf of the cause of new music." New Music Connoisseur

Richard Brooks Appointed Composer-in-Residence for The Lark Ascending
The Lark Ascending is, "a group of concerned individuals in the academic and performance worlds
who fear that our long and venerable Western cultural tradition is going into a kind of eclipse."