Honours and Audience Prize
Although a European resident for over twenty years, Ching's achievements are well recognised in the country of his birth.
- In 1990, 1993, and 1997 he represented the Philippines in three major cultural delegations to China.
- In December 1998 Ching was named one of the five outstanding young citizens of the year by the President of the Philippines, on the basis that his "works have expanded the scope and quality of Philippine musical literature".
- In June 2003 he was awarded the newly established Jose Rizal Award for Excellence (in the category of Art, Literature and Culture) by the President of the Philippines.
On 26 September 2010 Ching's opera Das Waisenkind (The Orphan) won the Theater Erfurt Zuschauerpreis or 'audience prize', i.e., the public voted it by a wide margin the best opera production of the 2009-10 season, an extraordinary accolade for a contemporary work.
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