1. Preis:
30.000 Euro, sowie ein Bösendorfer Konzertflügel Modell 214 VC,
gestiftet von der Firma L. Bösendorfer GmbH
 2. Preis:
12.000 Euro

3. Preis:
6.000 Euro („Rita Medjimorec-Gedächtnispreis“, gestiftet von Heinz Medjimorec)

Förderstipendien
für alle Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer, die im Brahms-Saal auftreten und keinen anderen Preis erhalten, in Höhe von jeweils 1.000 Euro.

Cosima Soulez Larivière, Violine
Philipp Scheucher, Klavier

All in all, her playing is dynamically varied and of great richness with its many colors. On a good-sounding Bösendorfer, the power of the left hand and the contrasts thus achieved are also particularly striking, so that the listener’s interest is kept alive by truly exciting interpretations.

Stephen Hough - pianist, composer, author and artist plays the Nocturne in F sharp major, op. 15, No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin, recorded by Gramophone at the Bristol Hotel in Vienna.

One thing I immediately liked about Grante’s playing was that he makes a differentiation in approach to Brahms’ original works and the variations he wrote based on the music of Handel, Paganini, Schumann and a Hungarian song, all of which require an entirely different approach to the rhythm. (Lynn René Bayley, Art Music Lounge)

I try to write music that expresses what I am thinking, feeling ... and am. Or the opposite".

Nareh, acclaimed for her "sensual" narrative tone", "precise stylistic approach" and "dazzling technique", juxtaposes two vignettes of the Romantic piano repertoire: Brahms Opus 117 and Tschaikowsky's Opus 37.

Stephen Hough had decided to record the complete Beethoven piano concertos live across two concerts, but plans soon changed ...

ANAHEIM (January 16, 2020) — Bösendorfer unveiled the Secession 214VC Vienna Concert grand piano, the first in the company’s Architecture Series, at the 2020 NAMM Show in Anaheim being held January 16-19, 2020.

In 1908 Ludwig Bösendorfer himself designed the Bösendorfer 170 for the highly cultured society of Imperial Vienna. The Grand Piano 170VC leads Ludwig Bösendorfer’s inventive spirit into the next generation.