Honours and Awards
- Sonning Award (1988; Denmark)
- National First Class Prize of the GDR
- Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of Federal Republic of Germany)
- Ernst von Siemens Music Prize 1988
- Honorary membership of the Musikverein Wien (Vienna Society of Music)
- "Wiener Flötenuhr"
- "Georg Philipp Telemann" Prize
- European Church Music Prize
- Title of Kammersänger (a title conferred to singers of outstanding merit) by the governments of the GDR, Bavaria and Austria
- Honorary citizen of the town of Meissen because of his efforts in fund-raising for the restoration of the town.
- He was awarded the Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Prize in 2009.
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