Special prizes at the Essen Piano Competition
After the original cancellation of the 15th International Piano Competition Youth in Essen, it could now be made up for in September – with our foundation as partner.
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But we are proud to say that Magdalena Müllerperth contributed 114 entries already.
After the original cancellation of the 15th International Piano Competition Youth in Essen, it could now be made up for in September – with our foundation as partner.
The Foundation belatedly awarded four extra prizes to outstanding young pianists in the piano solo category of the regional Jugend musiziert competition in Berlin.
Isolation was defied in Hamburg and the public was able to participate in all of the rounds and the prize winners’ concert of the Theodor Leschetizky Competition, although not live, but via stream.
In December of last year, Potsdam’s Bornstedter Feld elementary school applied – two months later, the students were able to start playing on their new piano.
Since June 2017, the Dr. Walter Asam School in Neuburg an der Donau has been using a W. Hoffmann piano donated by the Carl Bechstein Foundation.
In the fall of 2018, the Georg Mangold School in Bischofsheim received a piano from the Carl Bechstein Foundation. After one and a half years the school takes stock.
The foundation raised funds for Viennese students at a benefit concert featuring pianist Christopher Hinterhuber.
As in previous years our jury consists of musicians and music educators with a lot of experience in chamber music.
When our pianos have been in the schools for a while, it’s time to take a look: has anything changed? What effect does our instrument have?
Since the fall of 2017 a piano provided by the Carl Bechstein Foundation has been in use at the Jan Amos Comenius Elementary School in Munich. We asked what has happened at the school since then.