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"Arion Award" and "Minao Shibata Award"

- What are "Arion Award" and "Minao Shibata Award"?

Arion Award recognizes and promotes the activities of young musicians. The recipients of the award's prize money are newcomers to the field (performers, composers, or academics; individuals or groups) whose activity demonstrates great promise for the future.
The goal of the Minao Shibata Award is to raise music criticism in the future by recompensing competent writers.

Arion Award

This year's Arion Award has been assigned to the percussion instrument section.
The results are posted below:

Arion Award 2007
Fumiko Nomura
Presentation

Arion Encouragement Award 2007
Kenji Ikenaga
Presentation

Minato Shibata Award

The results of this year's Minao Shibata Award are posted below:

Minato Shibata Award
Natsuki Sawatani

Minato Shibata Award
Shin'nosuke Nagai

- Selection process

Arion Award (bi-annual; performers, composers, directors of all genres)		Minao Shibata Award (every year)
Jury members nominate candidates, among which the decision will be made. Therefore there is no public appeal for participation.		Candidates have to hand in 3 critics on two selected concerts of the Tokyo Summer Festival, and one editorial comment on music.

- Winners in the past

Arion Award

1984 Toshio Hosokawa (composer)
1989 Yutaka Sado (conductor)
1990 [Encouragement Award] Nobuhiro Ito (music critic)
1995 Daishin Kashimoto (violinist)
1999 Akie Amou (soprano)
2001 Mayuko Kamio (violinist)
2003 Hibiki Tamura (pianist)
2005 Kamei Yoshunobu (clarinettist)
2005 〔Encouragement Award〕 Megumi Kamida (trombonist), Kazushi Saitou (flute)

Minao Shibata Award for musical criticism

1996 Yukiko Onji, Sadahiko Nonomu
1998 Koukou Shinden
2000 Kentaro Imata
2002 Jun'ichiro Ishizuka
2006 Kei Saito / Yoshio Nakamura