Italian Radio (RIA) grant for creation of an electronic work at Studio di Fonologia, Milan 1965.

Rockefeller Fellow at Center for Creative and Performing Arts, SUNY at Buffalo, under direction of Lukas Foss, 1967-69.

CAPS award in Music Composition from NY State Council on the Arts 1975.

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 1977.

DeMenil Foundation grant 1977.

French Ministry of Culture (Jack Lang) invitation as participant and performer in "Rencontres Nord/Sud", an international conference on aspects of cultural integration. Montpelier, June 1982.

The "Ubu" (Italian Critics Circle "Tony" award) prize for best musical score for a theatrical work in 1982 season for "Sulla Strada" ("On the Road") by the Maggazini Criminali company.

1983-84 Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities "New Works" award for "Zangezi", a collaboration with director Peter Sellars and writer/translator Paul Schmidt on the play by the visionary Russian futurist, Velimir Khlebnikov.

1987 commission from the Kronos Quartet: "Pano da Costa" ("Cloth from the Coast") recorded on Nonesuch.

"Jazz in Sardinia" Festival commission for the creation of a collaborative program and tour with a native African group:"Farafina", from Burkina Faso.1987.

1994--Nominated for first CalArts/Alpert Award in the Arts.