Prizes

Cash prizes

1st prize: 30,000 €
2nd prize: 20,000 €
3rd prize: 10,000 €

Special prizes

Best interpretation of a piano concerto in the final
3,000 €

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.

Deutsche Telekom StreamOn Beethoven Award
Awarded by the online audience to one of the six semifinalists. The winner will receive € 1,000 donated by Deutsche Telekom AG and will perform a piano recital at the Deutsche Telekom Representative Office, Berlin.

Best interpretation of a piece of Robert Schumann in the Semifinal 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 2,000 €