Last year’s Beethoven Competition saw the 27-year-old German pianist Aris Alexander Blettenberg awarded the first prize. Blettenberg swayed the jury with his performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 in C Major op. 15, prevailing over Dasol Kim and Philipp Scheucher at the final round on 21 October 2021 in the Vienna Musikverein’s Golden Hall.

The mdw’s 16th International Beethoven Piano Competition – just in time for the composer’s 250th birthday.

26th Vienna Days of Contemporary Piano Music

The 22-year-old pianist Maximilian Kromer is the sixth CARSA winner.

The International Fritz Kreisler Society has been holding its competition every four years since 1979.

This is Vienna’s first and only singing competition devoted exclusively to Austrian composers’ Lied (art song) output.

25 musicians from 15 countries qualified to participate in this renowned competition.

The fifth edition of what has now become Vienna’s largest competition for opera singers once again saw over 120 participants from all over the world gather at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.

Over 250 candidates registered for the competition’s 15th edition.