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.

  • Focus: Hans Suh

    Hans Suh plays the piano

    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-Liszt symphony cycle by Hinrich Alpers

    Portrait 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 ...

  • Filippo Gorini's "Art of Fugue Explored"

    Portrait Filippo Gorini

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

  • Debut CD by Alberto Ferro released

    Alberto Ferro at the piano, text: Rachmaninov Etudes-Tableaux in the picture

    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...

  • Cello sonatas as a belated birthday present

    Ben Cruchley and cellist Jonathan Weigle

    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...