Krzysztof Penderecki - Honours and Awards

Honours and Awards

This article incorporates information from the equivalent article on the German Wikipedia.

• 2011: Viadrina Prize (Viadrina European University, Frankfurt)
• 2009: Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg; Merit of Armenia
• 2008: Polish Academy Award for Best Film Score for Katyn; Commander of the Order of the Three Stars (Latvia)
• 2005: Order of the White Eagle (Poland)
• 2004: Praemium Imperiale - Music (Japan)
• 2003: Grand Gold Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria; Preis der Europäischen Kirchenmusik (Germany); Freedom of Dębica; Eduardo M. Torner Medal of the Conservatorio de Musica del Principado Asturias in Oviedo, Spain; honorary director of the Choir of the Prince of Asturias Foundation; Honorary President of the Apayo a la Creación Musical
• 2002: State Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia; Romano Guardini Prize
• 2001: Prince of Asturias Award for Art; Honorary Member of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts;
• 2000: Cannes Classical Award as "Living Composer of the Year"; honorary member of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna; Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1999: Music Prize of the City of Duisburg
• 1998: Composition Prize for the Promotion of the European economy; Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich; Honorary Board of the Vilnius Festival '99
• 1996: Primetime Emmy Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
• 1995: Member of the Royal Irish Academy of Music (Dublin); honorary citizen of Strasbourg; Primetime Emmy Award of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; Herder Prize
• 1993: Distinguished Citizen Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study at Indiana University, Bloomington; Prize of the International Music Council / UNESCO for Music; Cultural Merit of the Principality of Monaco
• 1992: University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition for Adagio - 4 Symphony; Austrian Medal for Science and Art
• 1990: Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Chevalier de Saint Georges
• 1985: Premio Lorenzo Magnifico;
• 1983: Wihuri Sibelius Prize (Finland); Polish National Award
• 1977: Prix Arthur Honegger for Magnificat
• 1977: Herder Prize
• 1968: Prix Italia for the Dies Irae in memory of the victims of Auschwitz
• 1967: Prix Italia for the St. Luke Passion; Sibelius Gold Medal
• 1966: Grand Art Prize of North Rhine-Westphalia for the St. Luke Passion;
• 1961: UNESCO prize for Threnody;
• 1959: II Warsaw Competition of Young Polish Composers of the Composers' Union - Penderecki received for his works stanzas, Emanations and Psalms of David all three awards the prize.

Penderecki is honorary doctor and honorary professor of several universities: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., University of Glasgow, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Fryderyk Chopin Music Academy in Warsaw, Seoul National University, Universities of Rochester, Bordeaux, Leuven, Belgrade, Madrid, Poznan and St. Olaf College (Northfield, Minnesota), Duquesne University, University of Pittsburgh (PA), University of St. Petersburg, Beijing Conservatory, Yale University and Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster (Westphalia) (2006 Faculty of Arts).

He is an Honorary Member of the following academies and music companies: Royal Academy of Music (London), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia(Rome), Royal Swedish Academy of Music (Stockholm), Academy of Arts (London), Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) and the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.