Laureates in focus

"Sonata for Seven Cities" is an artistic project by the winner of the Telekom beethoven Competition 2015 Filippo Gorini. It involves month-long residencies in seven different cities around the world, with a focus on community engagement and outreach through music. The project aims to offer more than just traditional concerts, including performances in unconventional venues like hospitals and soup kitchens, as well as educational initiatives and mentoring for local young musicians

Caleb Borick, winner of the 2023 Telekom Beethoven Competition, was on a concert tour across Germany in spring 2025 with the Klassische Philharmonie Bonn. They performed in renowned concert halls, presenting a classical-romantic program of Brahms and Beethoven.

As the first prize winner, Hans Suh was given the opportunity to create his own concert at the Beethovenfest 2022: Hans Suh presented himself not only as a pianist, but also as a composer and conductor.

Beethoven Competition prize-winner Hinrich Alpers has recorded all of the symphonies by Beethoven in Franz Liszt's transcription for piano to mark the ...

Filippo Gorini focuses on Johann Sebastian Bach's last work "The Art of Fugue" in an extraordinary, interdisciplinary project!

Alberto Ferro, first prize winner of the Telekom Beethoven Competition 2017, has recorded his debut CD. The young Italian pianist inspires with a subtle and technically demanding interpretation of Sergei Rachmaninov's 'Etudes-tableaux'. Recorded in Sacile at...

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...

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...