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 euros and aims to support outstanding Pianists. A first international jury elects and nominates 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 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
Valery Gergiev
Peter Ramsauer
Petra Roth
Lars Vogt
Laureates
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
2021: Dmitry Ablogin
Audience Awards
2013: Thomas Wypior
2014: Albertina Eunju Song
2015: Andrejs Osokins
2017: Eric Lu
2018: Tomoki Sakata
2019: Luka Okros
Nominated pianists 2011–2017
2011
Nareh Arghamanyan, Joseph Moog, Christopher Park, Amir Tebenikhin, Hélène Tysman, Anna Winnitskaja,
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
François Dumont, Ching-Yun Hu, Alexander Lubyantsev, Maria Mazo, Andrejs Osokins, Yekwon Sunwoo, Georgy Tchaidze, Andrew Tyson, Irene Veneziano, Alexander Yakovlev,
2017
Moye Chen, Zhenni Li, Eric Lu, Fabio Martino, Jiayan Sun, Alexander Yakovlev
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