2007-10 Charles Ives Living Award, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award (Violin Concerto No. 2)
2002 Berlin Prize (Alberto Vilar Fellowship)
2000 Aspen Music Festival commission to inaugurate the Benedict Music Tent
1998-2002 Composer-in-Residence - Oxford (England) Philomusica
1998 Grammy nomination (Ghost Variations) for Best Contemporary Classical
Composition; Stephen Hough’s performance also nominated for Best
Instrumental Solo Without Orchestra
1998 cited in TIME magazine’s Top Ten Recordings (Ghost Variations)
1995 American Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
1992 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (Perpetual Angelus)
1989 Kennedy Center Friedheim Award (String Quartet No. 4)