Leinsdorf, Eliahu Inbal, James Judd, Walter Susskind, Herbert Blomstedt, Georges Tzipine, Arturo Tamayo, Robert Busan, Lukas Foss, Péter Eötvös, Zakarias Grafilo, Sir John Pritchard, Sir Roger Norrington, Sir Andrew Davis, Willem van Otterloo, Hiroyuki Iwaki, Lamberto Gardelli, Colman Pearce, and Sir Alexander Gibson. Although the embargo was extensive, Woodward and other Australian artists were invited by Symphony Australia to perform a limited number of orchestral concerts, after the personal intervention of Prime Minister Paul Keating. Throughout this period, he performed with the Arditti, Tokyo, New Zealand, Australian and Sydney string quartets, the Australia Ensemble, the Edinburgh String Quartet, JACK Quartet and the Alexander String Quartet, with whom he recorded Beethoven, Chopin, Shostakovich, and Robert Greenberg. He also collaborated with harpsichordist George Malcolm and jazz pianist Cecil Taylor in Lisbon, Paris, for the Patras Festival, and for extensive tours of the UK Contemporary Music Network from 1987–94. He worked with musicologists Charles Rosen, Paul Griffiths, H. C. Robbins-Landon, Richard Toop, Paul M. Ellison, Nouritza Matossian and Sharon Kanach; violinists Philippe Hirschhorn, Ivry Gitlis, Ilya Grubert, Winfried Rademacher, Asmira-Woodward-Page and Wanda Wiłkomirska; violist ; cellists Rohan de Saram, Nathan Waks, Jacopo Scalfi and David Pereira; Synergy Percussion, Chris Dench, Adrian Jack, Elena Kats-Chernin, Alessandro Solbiati; the flautists Laura Chislett, Pierre Yves- Artaud; pianists: Yuji Takahashi, Alexander Gavrylyuk, Stephanie McCallum, Robert Curry, Noel Lee and Simon Tedeschi. He also worked with James Dillon, James Morrison, David Gulpilil, Robyn Archer and Frank Zappa. Nominated by Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Premier Neville Wran, Woodward became a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 1992. The following year, Polish President Lech Wałęsa, conferred his nation's highest honour upon a foreigner—the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland (OM). During the 1990s Woodward toured China twice, co-founded and directed the Kötschach-Mauthner Musikfest (1992–97), the Joie et Lumière concert series (under the patronage of Lord Paul Hamlyn and Lady Helen Hamlyn) at Château de Bagnols, Bourgogne 1997–2004, in tribute to the memory of Sviatoslav Richter, and an annual concert series—the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music 1989–2001, when he collaborated with Arvo Pärt and Horatiu Radulescu. He commissioned a series of three piano concertos from Larry Sitsky. The first was premiered at the 1994 Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music and recorded in 1997. In 1995 it was selected by the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers for citation. Between 1992-98 he was awarded