In the same week, two papers from the MTG obtained the best paper award in two conferences. Georgi Dzhambozov, first author, obtained the best paper award at FMA 2016 for the paper entitled "Automatic Alignment of Long Syllables In A cappella Beijing Opera".  Jordi Pons, first author, obtained the best paper award at CBMI 2016 for the paper entitled "Experimenting with Musically Motivated Convolutional Neural Networks".