Awards and Recognition
- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for Nixon in China (1989)
- Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Best Chamber Composition for Chamber Symphony (1994)
- Grawemeyer Award in Musical Composition for Violin Concerto (1995)
- Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1997)
- Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1997)
- Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Composition for El Dorado (1998)
- Pulitzer Prize for Music for On the Transmigration of Souls (2003)
- Grammy Award for Best Classical Album for On the Transmigration of Souls (2005)
- Grammy Award for Best Orchestral Performance for On the Transmigration of Souls (2005)
- Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition for On the Transmigration of Souls (2005)
- Harvard Arts Medal (2007)
- Honorary Doctorate of Arts from Northwestern University (2008)
- Honorary Doctorate of Music from Harvard University (2012)
- California Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts
- Cyril Magnin Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts
- Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters)
- Many of his pieces have been displayed on the strategy game Civilization IV, specifically when the player enters the modern era.
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