In 2009, Krzysztof Penderecki received the Ordre de Mérite du Grand-Duché de Luxemburg and an Honorary Order from the President of the Republic of Armenia. In 2009, Krzysztof Penderecki composed Kaddish to mark the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Łódź Ghetto.
Krzysztof Penderecki was invited to join the Honorary Committee of the Year of Chopin Celebrations 2010 at the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Lisbon, Tokyo and Rome.
In 2010, to mark the bicentenary of Fryderyk Chopin’s birth, he composed A sea of dreams did breathe on me... Songs of reverie and nostalgia for soprano, mezzo-soprano and baritone. In 2010, the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien (Musikverein) commissioned him to write a work to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Musikverein in Vienna – Double Concerto for Violin and Viola, which was premiered on 22 October 2012 in Vienna by the Bavarian Radio Orchestra conducted by Mariss Jansons with Janine Jansen (violin) and Julian Rachlin (viola). The first German performance (by the same musicians) took place on 15 and 16 November in Munich. The work was recorded for BR-Klassik. The Polish premiere was held on the composer’s 79th birthday in Poznań. Krzysztof Penderecki conducted the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra with soloists Fumiaki Miura (violin) and Julian Rachlin (viola).
Krzysztof Penderecki’s new version of his opera The Devils of Loudun was premiered in Copenhagen on 12 February 2013.