David Winkler has received a Martha Argerich Project/Lugano Festival Commission, a Leonard Bernstein Composer Fellowship, a Fromm Foundation at Tanglewood Commission, commissions from the Korean Broadcasting System, the National Symphony Orchestral/Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Kurpfalziches Kammerorchester of Mannheim, I Musici di Parma, the Dubai Concert Committee, a special ASCAP award, the BMI Young Composer Award, etc.  He has been composer in residence with the Aspen Music Festival, the Banff Centre, Opera/Omaha , the Chautauqua Opera and the Lincoln Center Institute. He has also received a fellowship grant by the New York Foundation for the Arts (2001)to support the creation of a variety of new symphonic works; and a commission grant by the New York State Council on the Arts to create new choral works.