 He is an Honorary Foreign Member of the (1993), of the Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere, and received the Pavlov Medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2004).He plays classical guitar and sings Occitan troubadour and folk songs (Oxford Trobadors).In addition to English, he has lectured in , , Performance with Nadau & Peiraguda Occitan, Japanese and Korean.