• Best Film Scoring – Curta Canoa Festival, Canoa Quebrada, Brazil 2012
Composed for the short film 5 HORAS RUMO NORTE
• Ascap Film Scoring Workshop, Los Angeles, CA May 2004
Film composer participant in ASCAP’s Film Scoring Workshop
• Downbeat Magazine, Miami, FL May 2004
Engineered Live Recording College Winner
• Henry Mancini Institute, Los Angeles, CA July 2003
Overture Composer Full Scholarship
• University of Miami, Miami, FL August 2003
Recording Studio Assistant one-year full scholarship
• Fulbright, New York, NY July 2002
Scholarship to take the master program in Studio/Jazz Writing at the University of Miami
• ApArtes-CAPES, Brasilia, DF, Brazil May 2002
Prize from the Brazilian government as outstanding young artist
• First National Competition of Arranging for Wind Ensemble, Tatuí, Brazil May 2001
Advanced level prize
• State University of Campinas, Campinas, SP, Brazil January 1998
One-year scholarship for writing a scientific work titled, “Harmonic Conception of Toninho Horta”
• Winter Festival of Campos do Jordão, Campos do Jordão, SP, Brazil July 1999
Full scholarship as a guitarist
• Winter Festival of Campos do Jordão, Campos do Jordão, SP, Brazil July 1997
Full scholarship as a guitarist