
Salome Seidenberg & Flora Schirmer
Salome Seidenberg and Flora Schirmer won a special prize from the Carl Bechstein Foundation as a duo (piano and horn) at the Landeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert 2025

Kateryna Yurieva & Tayo Viohl
Kateryna Yurieva & Tayo Viohl won a special prize from the Carl Bechstein Foundation as a duo at the Berlin Landeswettbewerb Jugend musiziert 2025

Scholarship holders performed in the Schumann Hall
Every year, the Carl Bechstein Foundation invites its scholarship recipients to perform in a joint concert. This time, they took to the stage in the sold-out Robert Schumann Hall in Dresden's beautiful Coselpalais.

There was a shower of prizes at the Kronberg piano competition.
It was impressive! The winners' concert at the Casals Forum, held as part of the 2nd International Piano Competition for Young Pianists Kronberg, was of the highest standard.

Jonas Stark
Jonas Stark won the Carl Bechstein Foundation Special Prize at the 2025 German Music Competition.

Cantabile Piano Competition Flandern
The Carl Bechstein Foundation supported the Cantabile Piano Competition Flanders.

A new piano for the elementary school Grundschule am Schwanenteich
A new piano has just been delivered to the elementary school Grunschule am Schwanenteich in Neuenhagen near Berlin.

Carl Bechstein Commpetition 2025
From November 7 to 9, 2025, we invite young duos of piano and a string instrument to the 11th Carl Bechstein Competition for Children and Young People at the Kulturstall of Schloss Britz in Berlin-Neukölln.

Memorandum of Cooperation
Carl Bechstein Aid for Ukraine gGmbH signs memorandum of cooperation with Ukraine in the field of music education.
