Prizes
- 2018 Premio Italiques for Trompe-La-Mort
- 2018 Accademia dei Lincei, Roma – Premio Feltrinelli for music composition
- 2015 Royal Philharmonic Society, London: Music Award – for Duende, The Dark Notes, as best “large scale composition”.
- 2011 Premio della Critica musicale italiana “Franco Abbiati” – for the Opera Quartett at la Scala, Milano
- 2008 Grand Prix du Disque, Académie Charles Cros
- 1994 Prix Italia, Torino
- 1994 Ernst von Siemens Musikpreis, Munich
- 1990 Kranichsteiner Musikpreis, Darmstadt
- 1988 StipendienPreis, Darmstadt Ferienkursen
- 1986 The New Music Composers’ Competition, New York
- 1985 Premio ‘Guido d’Arezzo’
- 1985 Premio Martín Codax de Música, Vigo 1985
- 1984 Gaudeamus International Composers Award, Amsterdam
- Accademico di Santa Cecilia, Roma
- Membro onorario dell’Accademia Filarmonica Romana
- Membro onorario di Milano Musica