International German Piano Award

International German Piano Award
	International German Piano Award
Presented by	International Piano Forum Frankfurt
First award	2011
Website	https://ipf-frankfurt.com
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Last updated October 12, 2025

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

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
2022: Konstantin Emelyanov
2023: Andrey Gugnin
2024: Magdalene Ho

Audience Awards

2013: Thomas Wypior
2014: Albertina Eunju Song
2015: Andrejs Osokins
2017: Eric Lu^[1]
2018: Tomoki Sakata
2019: Luka Okros
2021: Yekwon Sunwoo
2022: Konstantin Emelyanov
2023: Xuanyi Mao
2024: Maxim Lando

Nominated pianists 2011–2024

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

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^[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 Sohn2021
Dmitry Ablogin
Jean-Selim Abdelmoula
Hyelim Kim
Jung Eun Séverine Kim
Ziyu Liu
Yeontaek Oh
Ilia Papoian
Youngho Park
Philipp Scheucher2022
Michelle Candotti
Konstantin Emelyanov
Ilia Papoian
Jinhyung Park
Dmitry Sin
Slavomir Zaranok2023
Raúl da Costa
Andrey Gugnin
Uladzislau Khandohi
Jean-Michel Kim
Seunghyun Lee
Xuanyi Mao
Alexei Melnikov
Ilia Papoian
Yongi Woo
Suah Ye

2024

Magdalena Ho
Fuko Ishii
Uladzislau Khandohi
Maxim Lando
Vitaly Starikov
Xiaolu Zang

Members of the jury since 2011

Ogtay Abasguliyev, Azerbaidschan
Conrad van Alphen, Netherlands
Paul Badura-Skoda, Austria
Maurizio Baglini, Italy
Eleonore Büning, Germany
Alexander Buhr, Germany
Hung-Kuan Chen, USA
Paul Dan, Germany
Gaetan Le Divelec, Great Britain
Josep Caballé Domenech, Spain
Thomas Duis, Germany
Gudni Emilsson, Island
Enrico Fischer, Germany
Norma Fisher, Great Britain
Renchang Fu, People's Republic of China
Lukas Geniusas, Russia
Petras Geniusas, Lithuania
Bernd Goetzke, Germany
Giorgi Jordania, Georgia
Milton Rubén Laufer, USA
Dmitri Levkovich, Ukraine
David Lively, USA-France
Alexei Ljubimow, Russia
Wolfgang Manz, Germany
Jura Margulis, Russia
Siegfried Mauser, Germany
Rudolf Meister, Germany
Pablo Mielgo, Spain
Dariusz Mikulski, Poland
Ekaterina Murina, Russia
Michael Ponti, USA
Jorge Luis Prats, Kuba
Wojciech Rajski, Poland
Frederic Anthony Rzewski, Belgium
Georg Friedrich Schenck, Germany
Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Germany
Reinhard Seehafer, Germany
Lior Shambadal, Israel
Yekwon Sunwoo, South Korea
Alexander Tchaikovsky, Russia
Amir Tebenikhin, Kazakhstan
Pieter Van Winkel, Netherlands
Catherine Vickers, Germany
Boian Videnoff, Bulgaria
Sebastian Weigle, Germany
Gregor Willmes, Germany
Andrea Zietzschmann, Germany^[1]

References

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