His work Hammer and Darkness, Mirror and Knife, written in the summer of 1986, won the Tanglewood Prize for Composition.
In this one-year position, he was first person to receive the Interdisciplinary Fellowship established by the American Composers Forum and the Minnesota State University System.
[2] On December 2, 1994, Vores presented his first opera, an adaptation of the Virginia Woolf play Freshwater, at Boston University.
[1] His first CD, Urban Affair, a classical work consisting of nine movements, was released on the Vera label in 2005.
Urban Affair was commissioned as part of the Bank of America Celebrity Series and was performed for the CD by the Boston Trio.