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 at their New Year´s Concert 2026
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
Concerts with Beethoven Trio Bonn
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 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.
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 Publishers
worth a total of 1,500 €
Self-marketing coaching (in partnership with Villa Musica), exclusively for our top three prize winners.
We as Telekom Beethoven Competition invest a total of 10,000 € in special artistic projects of our first prizewinners.
