| 1989/90: | DAAD Berliner
Kunstlerprogramm Susan Sontag received literary award that year. Other musicians to receive this include Igor Strawinsky (Stravinsky), who accepted this award in his seventies, Roger Sessions, Krzysztof Penderecki, Luigi Dallapiccola, György Ligeti, Luciano Berio, Elliott Carter, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Luigi Nono, Arvo Pärt, John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, Morton Subotnick, and Alberto Ginastera. |
| 1985: | Vaughan Williams Trust Orchestral Composition Competition (once-off competition to find best unperformed orchestral work by UK citizens anywhere, and foreigners resident in UK) |
| 1984: | Gaudeamus selection awarded for Symphony in One Movement. |
| 1981: | Full scholarship and stipend from Columbia University for doctoral study. |
| M.Mus (Lond) | |
| First Prize, Greater London Arts Young Composer Award | |
| 1980: | 1st & 2nd prizes GLA Young Composer Award |
| 1979: | 2nd prize U/Mass Bay Harbor Festival Competition (1st prize, John Adams) |
| New England Conservatory Alumni Memorial Scholarship. |