2005: voted among the "Top 5 Singers of the month June" by the magazine "SingerUniverse" in Los Angeles 2008: Winner of the Marianne Mendt Jazz Young Talent Promotion 2010: Winner of BEST – Scholarship at Berklee College of Music, Boston 2011: Winner of the Bobby McFerrin Audition at the Berklee College of Music 2014: Winner of the Tokyo Foundation SYLFF Scholarship