Awards and Recognitions
- Winner of the Gabrilowitsch scholarship (1948/49)
- Winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions (1962)
- Year's Best Recording Award of Stereo Review and Saturday Review (Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, Valses Nobles et Sentimentales, La Valse; 1968)
- Year's Best Recording Award of Saturday Review and High Fidelity (Scriabin: The Complete Sonatas, Vol. 1; 1970)
- Best of the Month of Stereo Review (Scriabin: The Complete Sonatas, Vol. 1; 1970)
- Musician of the Month of High Fidelity/Musical America (1974)
- Nomination for the Grammy Award 1976 (Ravel: Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, with Jaime Laredo and Jeffrey Solow)
- Best of the Month of Stereo Review (Rachmaninoff, The Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5; 1979)
- Best Keyboard Artist Award of the Record World Magazine (Rachmaninoff, The Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 5; 1979)
- Nomination for the Grammy Award 1981 (Rachmaninoff: The Complete Works for Solo Piano, Vol. 7)
- selected as one of five pianists for the 90-year anniversary celebration of the Carnegie Hall (1981)
- Nomination for the Grammy Award 1983 (Barber: Sonata for Piano, Op. 26, Souvenirs, Op. 28, Nocturne, Op. 33)
- Honorary Member of the Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity (1983)
- Distinguished Service to Music in America Award of the Music Teachers National Association (1989)
- Music in Humanity Award at the Music Festival in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania (1994)
- Best of the Year of the Audiophile Audition Magazine (2nd new edition of the Scriabin Sonatas; 1997)
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