Harold is awarded the Edward T. Cone Fellowship for a residency at the Bogliasco Foundation near Genoa, Italy.

Harold's setting of James Dickey's poem, The Heaven of Animals, gets a premiere performance at Los Angeles Opera, by AMOC's countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and tenor Paul Appleby, part of the American Modern Opera Company's Veils of Desire program.

Pianist Sara Laimon, with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project conducted by Gil Rose, give the premiere performance of Harold's Piano Concerto, at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall.