Winner of the International Telekom Beethoven Competition 2021 © Norbert Ittermann
Cash prizes
1st prize: 50,000 €
Debut concert at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2024
International concerts as part of the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts Network
Debut concerto with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn during the 'BeethovenNacht' 2023
Concert tour with the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn in Germany with over 10 concerts, e.g. Berlin (Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt), Hamburg (Laeiszhalle), Munich (Herkulessaal), Bremen (Die Glocke) in 2024
European Academy for Music recital, Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy
"Junge Stars der Klassik" recital, Kirchheimbolanden
2nd prize: 25,000 €
Debut concert at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2025
Chamber music hall recital at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn
European Academiy for Music recital, Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy
"Junge Stars der Klassik" recital, Kirchheimbolanden
3rd prize: 10,000 €
Chamber music hall recital at the Beethoven-Haus Bonn
"Junge Stars der Klassik" recital, Kirchheimbolanden
Special prizes
Best interpretation of a piano concerto in the final
2,000 €
Special prize for chamber music, donated by the Beethoven Trio Bonn
2,000 €
Beethoven-Haus-Prize
The audience will vote for its favorite from among the six participants in the semifinal round. The winner will perform at a piano recital at the chamber music hall of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, receive a money prize of 1,000 € as well as a Beethoven bronze bust by the artist Naoum Aronson, donated by Dr. Gudula Neidert-Buech.
Best interpretation of a piece of Robert Schumann in the 2nd round donated by Prof. Dr. Uwe Henrik Peters and Dr. Anna Martini, Cologne
1,000 €
Best interpretation of a contemporary piece in the Chamber music final
1,000 €
Facsimile edition of a piano piece by Ludwig van Beethoven, donated by the Beethoven-Haus-Bonn.
Sheet music prizes, donated by Bärenreiter Publishers
worth a total of 1,500 €
Artistic projects of laureates
Our declared aim is to discover promising young, artistically excellent pianists and to foster their long-term careers through the accolades and further support provided by the Telekom Beethoven Competition. In addition to prize money & concert engagements, we accompany our pianists on their own artistic path and support them in their plans and projects.
Beethoven-Liszt symphony cycle by Hinrich Alpers
Beethoven Competition prize-winner Hinrich Alpers has recorded all of the symphonies by Beethoven in Franz Liszt's transcription for piano to mark the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven's birth: A huge project, which could also be realized with the...
Cello sonatas as a belated birthday present
Prize winner Ben Cruchley was a guest in the Chamber Music Hall of the Beethoven House in Bonn in January 2021. Together with his duo partner, cellist Jonathan Weigle, he presented the city's greatest son with a belated birthday present: all five of the...
Beethoven's complete piano sonatas, recorded by Jingge Yan
In 2011 he won the Beethoven Competition, now he presented the complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. A look behind the scenes during the recording at Beethoven-Haus Bonn can be seen here. All recordings were made with the support of...
