2008 S&R Washington Award Winners announced! Composer Koji Nakano is the Grand Prize winner. Mr. Nakano, as Grand Prize Winner, will receive a $10,000 cash award and a fully-funded recital. Visual Artists Bohyun Yoon and Maro Vandorou are each recipients of the S&R Washington Award. They will both receive a $5,000 cash prize. Click here for press release.
2007 S&R Washington Award Winners announced! Violinist Tamaki Kawakubo is the Grand Prize winner. Ms. Kawakubo will receive a $5,000 cash award and a fully-funded recital at a major concert venue. Pianist Reiko Aizawa, Violinist Yura Lee, and Classical Saxophonist Otis Murphy are each recipients of the S&R Washington Award; Mr. Murphy also is the recipient of the S&R Ambassadors Award. S&R Founders Awards were bestowed upon Pianist Koji Attwood and Violinist Saeka Matsuyama. All award winners receive a $5,000 cash prize. Click here for press release.
2006 S&R Washington Award winners announced! Violinists Sayaka Shoji & Shunské Sato are 1st and 2nd Place Grand Prize winners; both will receive $5000 cash prize & fully-funded recitals - Shoji's at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in New York, and Sato's in Washington. Composer Moto Osada and marimbist Naoko Takada each will receive $5000 cash prizes, as will Special Committee Award winner pianist Naoko Takao. Click here for press release.
2009 Washington Award Ceremony
Carnegie Hall 2009 Recital
S&R Washington Awards 2007
Shunske Sato, 2006 S&R Washington Award winner at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
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