In 2018 several former price winners of the Johannes Brahms Competitiors are invited to play concerts in Japan.
- Johannes Marcel Kits, winner of the cello competition in 2016, will be playing a concert in Tokyo in February 2018, as well as one in Utsunomiya.
- The duo YUI Kasumi (piano) and PARK Soo-Hyun (violin), winners of the chamber music in 2016, will give a concert in Utsunomiya in May.
- Belle Ting, second in the Violin competition in 2017, was invited to Japan for a concert in December 2018.