four doctorates honoris causa and in 1999, completed the degree of Doctor of Music at the University of Sydney. Woodward's performances as a conductor received wide critical acclaim: with the Adelaide Chamber Orchestra; the Sydney Dance Company at the Sydney Opera House in a collaboration with its artistic director Graeme Murphy in twenty-five performances of the Xenakis ballet Kraanerg; the Shanghai Conservatory Orchestra; in the UK for BBC2 Television; with the Alpha Centauri Ensemble (twenty-three musicians) at Scala di Milano; and in the the Academia Santa Cecilia, Rome; at the Biblioteca Salaborsa, Bologna; and for the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music (1989–2001). His compositions have been performed in Poland, Australia, Cuba, the Netherlands, France, and the UK at the Almeida International New Music Festival (August, 1990). His work Sound by Sound—for live and recorded pianos, percussion and live electronics—was commissioned by the Festival d'automne à Paris for the bicentennial celebrations of the French Revolution. From eighteen Woodward taught in Sydney, then in Warsaw, during his studies at the Chopin National University. He taught in London and at the BBC Dartington master classes, was chair of Music at the University of New England (Australia) and chair of the School of Music, San Francisco State University where he is currently professor. Woodward lectured and/or gave master classes in Germany, Finland, Poland, Cuba, Mexico, the UK, US, China, New Zealand and Australia. He is a regular guest of international piano competition juries. Some of his students include Norman Lawrence, Carmel Gammal (née Ettinger), Geoffrey Abdallah, Peter Donohoe and Alan Kogosowski. Reception His iconic performances and recordings with Pierre Boulez, Jean Barraqué, Iannis Xenakis, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Sylvano Bussotti, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Anne Boyd, and Toru Takemitsu are established classics, characterized by unusual precision and penetrating insight. Innovative interpretations of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, Scriabin, and Shostakovich provide a strong and original direction in a redefinition of traditions, sometimes reviewed as unorthodox for their modernity. Principal awards and honours 1976: Członkiem Korespondentem, Towarzystwo im. Fryderyka Chopina, Poland 1980: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, UK 1981: Greater London Metropolitan Police, Citation for Bravery, UK 1988: Ancient Order of Bréifne 1992: Companion of the Order of Australia 1993: Commander Cross, Order of Merit, Republic of Poland 1997: National Living Treasure, National Trust of Australia 1998: Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, University of Alberta, Canada 2001: Centenary Medal, Australia 2004: