 From 1991-1994, Asia was the Meet the Composer/Composer In Residence with the Phoenix Symphony.He has been the recipient of a Meet The Composer/Reader's Digest Consortium Commission, United Kingdom Fulbright Arts Award Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, four NEA Composers Grants, a M. B. Rockefeller Grant, an Aaron Copland Fund for Music Grant, MacDowell Colony and Tanglewood Fellowships, ASCAP and BMI composition prizes, and a DAAD Fellowship for study in the Federal Republic of Germany.Asia is the 2010 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters award (2010).