• Prêmio Top de Qualidade Brasil
  (Brazil Top Quality Award 2004)
  
  
•  Clifton Webb Fine Arts Scholarship, 2004
  
  
• Evelyn & Mo Ostin Performing
  Arts Award, 2003
  
  
• Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
  Graduate Student Award, 2003
  
  
• Gluck Fellows Music Performance Program, 2002 and 2003
  
  
•  Mimi Alpert Feldman
  Scholarship Fund, 2002
  
  
• University of Rio de Janeiro, Uni-Rio, Brazil, 1996  Qualifying Exam for
  Assistant Professor, First Place
  
  
• Ribeirão Preto National Piano Competition, São Paulo, Brazil, 1988 Second Place
  
  
• Araçatuba National Piano Competition,
  São Paulo, Brazil, 1986 First Place
  
  
• Arnaldo Estrella National Piano Competition, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 1984
  “Haidée França Americano” Prize
  
  
• Arnaldo Estrella National Piano Competition, Juiz de Fora, Brazil, 1982
  “Haidée França Americano” Prize
  
  
• Maria Amália Tristão Totte National Piano Competition, Rio de Janeiro,
  Brazil, 1977, Honorable Mention

Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences
Student Awards, Beverly Hills Hotel 2003

Left to right:  John Myers (undergrad), Tanya Shelton (community college), Paul Spaeth (undergrad), Maria Alice Cardoso de Mendonca (graduate), Rodell Rosel (undergrad)