the Kohn Foundation 2012: Bach Medal from the City of Leipzig and its Bach Archiv 2014: Suntory Music Prize 2014: ECHO Klassik ‘Editorial Achievement of the Year’ award for his recording of the Bach cantatas 2015: Gutenberg Teaching Award of the University of Mainz References Sources Notes to performance of Bach's Mass in B minor at the Barbican, London, 30 May 2006. External links Bach Collegium Japan: Masaaki Suzuki Masaaki Suzuki Management Masaaki Suzuki (Conductor, Harpsichord, Organ) bach-cantatas The Meistersingers from Tokyo on his tour in Germany, by Wolfram Goertz, signandsight.com Who dares, wins - Jeal, Erica, The Guardian (12 May 2006). Masaaki Suzuki in Conversation from WGBH Radio Boston Japanese classical organists Japanese conductors (music) Japanese male conductors (music) Japanese choral conductors Japanese harpsichordists Japanese performers of early music People from Kobe Tokyo University of the Arts alumni Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany 1954 births Living people Bach conductors Bach musicians Winners of the Royal Academy of Music/ Kohn Foundation Bach Prize Male classical organists 21st-century conductors (music) 21st-century organists 21st-century Japanese musicians 21st-century Japanese male musicians 20th-century conductors (music) 20th-century organists 20th-century Japanese musicians 20th-century Japanese male musicians