Skip to main contentSkip to footer

Prizes 2025

Cash prizes & concert engagements

Our prizewinners receive, in addition to cash prizes, prestigious national and international concert engagements.

1st prize: 50,000 €

Debut concert at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2026

International concerts as part of the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts Network with contact to most renowed and lagerst concert halls in europe like Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Tonhalle Düsseldorf and so on.

Debut concert with the Beethoven Orchester Bonn during the 'BeethovenNacht' 2025

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), Hannover (Funkhaus) in 2026/27

European Academy for Music recital, Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy

"Junge Stars der Klassik" recital, Kirchheimbolanden

Debut at Beethoven Easter Festival Warschau


2nd prize: 25,000 €

Debut concert at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2027

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


and much more



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 €

Special prize for the best interpretation of a piece by a female composer in the second round

1,000 €

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 BonnOpens in a new tab, 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.

Robert Schumann Prize 
donated by Dr. phil. Anna Martini 
in memorandum to Univ. Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Uwe Henrik Peters
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 PublishersOpens in a new tab
worth a total of 1,500 €



We as Telekom beethoven Competition invest a total of 10,000 € in special artistic projects of our prizewinners.