 Oldman prize in 1995.Posthumously he received the Curt Sachs Award of the American Musical Instrument Society on 31 May 2008.He served on the jury of the ARD Musikwettbewerb in Munich in 1965, 1975, 1984 and 1990, as well as in Prague, Eindhoven, Markneukirchen, Potsdam and Victoria BC.