1971 Feis Ceoil Prize
1973 Varming Prize For Irish Composers
1974 Dublin Symphony Orchestra Prize
1980 Berliner Kuenstler Programm
1981 Founding member Aosdana / Irish Academy of the Arts
1989 Fulbright Professorship
1999 Bourges Festival Premier Prix ( for WDR 1997 commissioned SWEENEYS VISION )
2002 Swedish E.M.S. Prize ( for WDR 1999 commissioned QUASI UNA MISSA )
2013 Cork International Choral Festival Sean O’Riada Prize
2013 International Federation for Choral Music First Prize ( for 8 HAIKUS / Manila University Choir )