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Suntory Music Award Awardees Suntory Foundation for Arts Suntory Music Award Awardees 1st 1969 Michio KOBAYASHI piano, cembalo, conduct 2nd 1970 Tsuyoshi TSUTSUMI cello 3rd 1971 Reiji MITANI opera production 4th 1972 Takashi OGAWA librarian, theory and critic 5th 1973 Organ Committee of International Christian University 6th 1974 Kazuyoshi AKIYAMA conduct 7th 1975 Yoshinobu KURIBAYASHI tenor Ginji YAMANE critic 8th 1976 Yasushi AKUTAGAWA and The New Symphony Orchestra 9th 1977 Toshiko TSUNEMORI soprano 10th 1978 Teizo MATSUMURA composition 11th 1979 Sumire YOSHIHARA percussion 12th 1980 Kappa SENOH set and costume design <special prize> Hideo EDO chairman of the first Japan Music Competition 13th 1981 Minao SHIBATA composition 14th 1982 Yuzo TOYAMA conduct <special prize> Kiyoshi HARA construction of The Symphony Hall in Osaka 15th 1983 Keisuke SUZUKI opera production 16th 1984 Kiyomi TOYODA soprano 17th 1985 Telemann Institute Japan 18th 1986 Mitsuko UCHIDA piano Hiroshi WAKASUGI conduct 19th 1987 Hiroyuki IWAKI conduct 20th 1988 Yasuko HAYASHI soprano 21st 1989 Masahiro ARITA flauto traverso, conduct 22nd 1990 Toru TAKEMITSU composition 23rd 1991 Tadaaki OTAKA conduct 24th 1992 Shigeo NERIKI piano 25th 1993 Midori GOTO violin <special prize> Wolfgang Sawallisch conduct 26th 1994 Takayoshi WANAMI violin 27th 1995 Nobuko IMAI viola Suntory Music Award Awardees 28th 1996 Takahiro SONODA piano Joji YUASA composition 29th 1997 The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra 30th 1998 Hikaru HAYASHI composition 31st 1999 Akira MIYOSHI composition 32nd 2000 Taijiro IIMORI conduct 33rd 2001 Toshi ICHIYANAGI composition 34th 2002 Seiji OZAWA conduct Kaori KIMURA piano 35th 2003 Ichiro NODAIRA piano, composition 36th 2004 Akira NISHIMURA composition 37th 2005 Hidemi SUZUKI cello, conduct 38th 2006 Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus 39th 2007 Toshio HOSOKAWA composition 40th 2008 Yumi KOYAMA mezzo soprano 41st 2009 Kazushi ONO conduct 42nd 2010 Yoshio WATANABE cembalo 43rd 2011 ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ ─ 44th 2012 Mihoko FUJIMURA mezzo soprano 45th 2013 Masaaki SUZUKI and Bach Collegium Japan Special Award in memory June 1979 Mari IWAMOTO String Quartet August 1997 Toshiro MAYUZUMI composition.

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M. Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan (BIS SACD)
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