Honorary Member
- Royal Academy of Music, London, March 1974
- Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome
- Musikaliska Akademien, Stockholm
- Akademie der Künste der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, Berlin
- Akademie der Künste, West Berlin
- Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
- Académie Internationale de Philosophie et de l'Art, Berne — February 1987
- Officier de l'Ordre de Saint Georges de Bourgogne, Brussels — April 1990
- Membre de l'Académie Nationale des Sciences, Belles-lettres et Arts, Bourdeaux
- Academia Scientiarium et Artium Europaea, Salzburg, 1993
- Honorary Member of the City of Strasbourg Medal, Strasbourg, February 1995
- Fellowship of the Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin, 1995
- Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris 1996
- Honorary Professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, February 1997
- Certificate of Merit from Mayor of Jerusalem, January 1997
- American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1998
- Artistic Advisor to the Beijing Music Festival, Beijing, 1998
- Honorary Artistic Director of the Krakow Philharmonic, Krakow 1998
- Honorary Professor of the Beijing Music Conservatory, Beijing 1998
- Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, 1998
- Musikpreis der Stadt Duisburg, October 1999
- Honorary Trustee of The Kosciuszko Foundation, New York City, April 1999
- Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde Wien, March 2000
- Adopted Citizen of Puerto Rico, 2000
- Honorary Fellowship, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, July 2001
- Honorary Citizen of the Dębica City and Podkarpacie District, 2003
- Honorary Member, Academia Argentina de Musica, June 2004
- Honorary Citizen of Buenos Aires (Visitante Ilustre de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires), July 2004
- Fondation Félix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Paris/Leipzig, 2004
- Honorary Citizen of the Zakliczyn District, Poland, 2004
- Honorary Professor of the Musical Academy in Riga, 2005
- Honorary Professor of St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory
- Honorary Professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatory, 2008
- Honorowy Profesor at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, 2008











