Leeds International Piano Competition

2024/ Piano

Application Due: 27.10.2023

Competition Dates: 02.04.-21.09.2024

Total Prize Money: 107.000 € Travel support: Restricted Other Awards: Concerts, Recording (Warner), Streaming: yes Management (Askonas Holt)

Jury: TBA

Artists: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra

Leeds International Piano Competition is held every three years with the Finals taking place in Leeds, UK. It is one of the Worlds greatest music events. We are proud to discover, launch and champion the World's finest young pianists. We offer a prize package that is truly transformative, including worldwide management with Askonas Holt, a debut recording with Warner Classics, recitals at Wigmore Hall and the Southbank in London, tours of Europe and East Asia in association with Steinway & Sons, broadcast opportunities with the BBC and an extensive package of national and international engagements with a range of promoters and orchestras, including the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.

Leipzig, Germany

Leipzig Bach Competition

2024/Organ, Voice, Violoncello

2026/Piano, Harpsichord, Violin www.bachwettbewerbleipzig.de / wettbewerb@bach-leipzig.de

Application Due: 20.02.2024

Competition Dates: 16-27.07.2024

Travel support: no Other Awards: Concerts, Recording Streaming: tbc

Total Prize Money: 67.500 €

Jury: Arvid Gast, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Bine Bryndorf a. o.; Ton Koopman, Thomas Quasthoff, Lisa Larsson a. o.; Hidemi Suzuki, Thomas Demenga, Pieter Wispelwey a. o.

Artists: Royal Mendelssohn Kammerorchester Leipzig, Leipziger Barockorchester, Pauliner Kammerorchester

International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition Leipzig is held every two years in the categories of violin/baroque violin, piano, harpsichord or voice, cello/baroque cello and organ, on a rotating basis. The competition is organized by the Bach Archive Leipzig and the Conservatory of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig. The pianist, harpsichord player and Harvard scholar Robert Levin has been president of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition since 2002.

WFIMC Member since 1965

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