At the ARIA Music Awards of 2011 Whitwell won the Best Classical Album award for "Mad Rush: Piano Music of Philip Glass". In 2012 she was nominated in the same category for "The Good, the Bad and the Awkward". She won the same category in 2013 for "All Imperfect Things: Solo Piano Music of Michael Nyman". Virginia Read won Engineer of the Year for that album and was also nominated for Producer of the Year.