Awards

• 2025: Raised to Officer of the French Order of Arts and Literature (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
• 2024: Leonie Sonning Music Prize, Denmark
• Awarded a total of 10 Echo and Opus awards in Germany.
• Several "Ongaku no Tomo" and "Record Geijutsu" awards from the Japanese record industry.
• 2013: "Diapason d'Or" magazine, France
• 2012: Classica Magazine Choc of the Year, France
• 2012: Record Academy Award, Japan
• 2011: HonRAM, Honorary Member of the Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
• 2009: Awarded the French Order of Arts and Literature (Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
• 2006: “Artiste Étoile” at Lucerne Festival, Switzerland.
• 1998: "Instrumentalist of the Year 1997" at the prestigious Victoires de la Musique award ceremony in Paris.
• 1998-99: Pahud's second EMI disc, Paris (1998) containing French flute music, in collaboration with Le Sage, won the Diapason d'Or award.
• 1997-98: Pahud's first EMI disc, Mozart Flute Concertos and the Concerto for Flute and Harp (1997) won the Diapason "CD of the Year" award, the Radio France listeners' poll as favourite recording of the year, the Japanese Geijutsu Award, and a Fono-Forum award.
• October 1992: wins Audition for principal flute of Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (Claudio Abbado).
• September 1992: Pahud won first prize and eight out of the twelve special prizes at the Concours de Genève.
• 1989: Won first prize at the Kobe International Flute Competition.
• 1988: Won first prize at the Duino International Music Competition.
• 1988: Won second prize at the International Scheveningen Music Competition.
• 1985: Won first prize at the National Competition in Belgium
• 1986: Soloists Prize in the Worldwide French-speaking Community Radio Awards.
• 1992: Awarded European Council's Juventus Prize.
• Pahud is also a laureate of the Yehudi Menuhin Foundation and of the International Tribune for Musicians of UNESCO.