
No Carl Bechstein Competition this Year
The rising infection numbers combined with increasingly restrictive limitations have left us with no other choice: The Carl Bechstein Competition must unfortunately be cancelled this year.

Music is back in Joachimsthal
After a forced break due to corona, the piano lessons at the Georg Büchner Elementary School in Joachimsthal started again with the new school year.

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.

Special Prizes at Jugend Musiziert Berlin
The Foundation belatedly awarded four extra prizes to outstanding young pianists in the piano solo category of the regional Jugend musiziert competition in Berlin.

Prizes at the International Theodor Leschetizky Piano Competition
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.

Elementary School in Bornstedter Feld
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.

Greetings from the Dr. Walter Asam School in Neuburg a.d. Donau
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.

Georg Mangold School
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.

Carl Bechstein Foundation Supports Students
The foundation raised funds for Viennese students at a benefit concert featuring pianist Christopher Hinterhuber.