1990
at the "2nd International Composition Competition for Guitar Berlin"
for "Erdferne"
1990
at the "International Composition Competition of the Percussion Creativ Nuremberg"
for "ent/lang/tast/end"
(Jury: Wolfgang Ludewig, Werner Heider, Robert Wittinger, Martin Christoph Redel)
1991
at the "Composition Prize of the Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart for Young Composers"
for "Wir machen keinen langen Mist" and "Schlafmaus. Metall. 7."
(Jury: Harald Heilmann, Milko Kelemen, Rolf Hempel, Manfred Schreier, Klaus Huber, Wolfgang Ludewig, Walter Zimmermann)
1992
at the "1st International Composition Competition for Guitar and Strings"
for "Sprünge"
(Jury: Paul-Heinz Dittrich, Georg Katzer, Carlo Domeniconi, Walter Thomas Heyn, Frank Hill)
1993
at the "Contest for Orchestra Works to Commemorate the Semicentennial of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government"
for "Îsôt als blansche mains"
(Jury: Jacob Druckman, Toshi Ichiyanagi, Michiyoshi Inoue, György Ligeti, Akira Miyoshi, Kazuyuki Toyama, Joji Yuasa)
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1996
residency scholarship from the Stiftung Kulturfonds for to stay at the Künstlerhaus Ahrenshoop
1998
residency scholarship to stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris
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2003
Moldau scholarship from the state of Hessen
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2012
residency scholarship to stay at the Deutsches Studienzentrum in Venice
(Jury: Peter Michael Hamel, Manfred Trojahn, Walter Zimmermann)
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