Ivors Composer Awards Nomination 2020 'Jazz Composition for Small Ensemble' Ivor Novello Award for 'Weird Weather'  

Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists 2019,Composer Award 

Ivors Composer Award Nomination 2019 'Best Contemporary Jazz work for Large Ensemble  - 'This Much I Know Is True'

British Composers Award Nomination 2016 'Best Contemporary Jazz Composition' - 'With One Voice'

Winner Jazz FM Instrumentalist Of The Year 2016

ECSA Featured Composer at ECCO Concert Slovenia 2016

MOBO Best Jazz Act Nomination 2015 - Polar Bear

Mercury Music Prize Nomination 2015 - Polar Bear 'In Each And Every One'

MOJO Album of the Year 2014 - Mark Lockheart's 'Ellington In Anticipation'

Winner All Party Parliamentary 2010 'Jazz Musician of the Year' - Mark Lockheart

Mercury Music Prize Nomination 2005 - Polar Bear 'Held On The Tip Of Fingers'

Peter Whittingham Award 1998 - Mark Lockheart's 'Through Rose-Coloured Glasses'

'Ellington Expanded' NYOS (National Youth Orchestra of Scotland) commission for new expanded 'Ellington In Anticipation' 2016

'A Shorter Story' commissioned by NYJC (National Youth Jazz Collective) 2015

'Are We There Yet' Jazz Electives Composer commissioned by THSH and Birmingham Music Service 2014

'Strange Attractors' commissioned by the Chaos Orchestra and released on their debut album 'Island Mentality' 2012

'High Force' commissioned by Super Brass 2011

'Castles in Spain' commissioned by Super Brass 2009

'Another Day' commissioned by Hertfordshire Music Service for the Hertfordshire Youth Jazz Ensemble 2006

'Imaginary Dances' commissioned by Cheltenham International Jazz Festival 2000