International German Piano Award

The International German Piano Award is a yearly international music competition for classical piano music since 2011. The International Piano Forum is the initiator and organizer of the competition.

The prize money amounts to a total of 20.000 euro and aims to support outstanding Pianists. A first international jury elects and nominate pianists under notary procedure. A second jury, then votes for the Laureate of the International German Piano Award. The following support of the nominated provides provides concerts at concert halls and contacts to conductors as well as orchestras. The International Piano Forum supports furthermore the production of CDs, websites and an artist portfolio. In the last years, the Grand Finale took place at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt am Main.

Patrons

Laureates 2011 - 2019

  • 2011: Amir Tebenikhin
  • 2012: Lukas Geniusas
  • 2013: Dmitri Levkovich - The Audience-Award went to Thomas Wypior
  • 2014: Misha Namirovsky - The Audience-Award went to Albertina Eunju
  • 2015: Yekwon Sunwoo - The Audience-Award went to Andrejs Osokins
  • 2016: Wataru Isasue
  • 2017: Eric Lu - The FAZ-Audience-Award went to Eric Lu
  • 2018: Hans H. Suh - The FAZ-Audience-Award went to Tomoki Sakata
  • 2019: JeungBeum Sohn - The FAZ-Audience-Award went to Luka Okros

Audience Awards

  • 2013: Thomas Wypior
  • 2014: Albertina Eunju Song
  • 2015: Andrejs Osokins
  • 2017: Eric Lu[1]
  • 2018: Tomoki Sakata
  • 2019: Luka Okros

Nominated pianists 2011 - 2017

2011

2012

  • Ah Ruem Ahn,
  • Lukas Geniusas,
  • Andrey Gugnin,
  • Toghrul Huseynli,
  • Ho Jeong Lee,
  • Igor Levit,
  • Dudana Mazmanishvili,
  • Igor Tchetuev,

2013

  • Gábor Farkas,
  • Viviana Lasaracina,
  • Dmitri Levkovich,
  • Alexey Pudinov,
  • Edoardo Turbil,
  • Thomas Wypior,

2014

  • Valentina Babor,
  • David Gray,
  • Lindsay Garritson,
  • Misha Namirovsky,
  • Jie Yuan,
  • Albertina Eunju Song,

2015

2017

  • Moye Chen,
  • Zhenni Li,
  • Eric Lu,
  • Fabio Martino,
  • Jiayan Sun,
  • Alexander Yakovlev[1]

2018

  • Alexei Melnikov
  • Tomoki Sakata
  • Hans H. Suh
  • Antonina Suhanova
  • Alexey Sychev
  • Amadeus Wiesensee

2019

  • Sergey Belyavskiy
  • Lika Bibileishvili
  • Sahun Hong
  • Rodolfo Leone (Could not participate due to an illness)
  • Luka Okros
  • JeungBeum Sohn

Members of the jury since 2011

References

  1. "Home - International Piano Forum". Pianoforum-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 18 January 2018.
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