Oper Köln
Yende won the Best Recording Solo Recital Award for her album "A Journey" in the 2017 International Opera Awards, and was awarded the International Achiever Award in the 23rd South African Music Awards. She won a Readers' Award in the 2018 International Opera Awards, and the Cologne Opera Award ("Kölner Opernpreis"), received during the city's Floraball.