Prize winners 2023: Category I (up to 13 years)

1st Prize

Linda Yuan

She started playing the piano at the age of 4 and has taken part in competitions in Germany, Italy, Belgium, France and Singapore since the age of 6. Born in Germany in 2010, Linda Yuan has already won more than 20 first prizes and special prizes at national and international piano competitions. She has performed at the Semperoper in Dresden, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Palais Prinz Carl Saal in Heidelberg and the Kunsthalle in Düsseldorf. She has been taught by Uwe Balser at the Heidelberg Music and Singing School since the age of 8.

2nd Prize

Pei Lin Oisin Pu

He was also born in 2010 and received his first piano lessons at the age of 6: Pei Lin Oisin Pu comes from Dublin in Ireland. He made his debut in the National Concert Hall at the age of 9. After the Ukrainian pianist and teacher Lina Butorina-Kiva was his piano teacher for the first few years, he has been taught by Dinara Klinton at the Yehudi Menuhin School in Surrey (UK) since 2021. He has already won international piano competitions, including the Grand Prix at the Concours International Piano Val de Travers in Neuchâtel (Switzerland).

2nd Prize

Puri Puengpipattrakul

The 12-year-old Thai Puri Puengpipattrakul won the Grand Prix in the piano solo category at the Sugree Charoensook International Music Competition in 2022 and was then able to make his debut as a soloist with the Thai Symphony Orchestra in Bangkok. In May of this year, he performed the Haydn Piano Concerto at the Weimar Liszt Competition with the Thai Youth Orchestra. He has also performed in Singapore and at Carnegie Hall in New York. In addition to his success as a pianist, he takes composition lessons and has already won prizes for his works.

3rd Prize

Ziyu Shao

Born in China in 2010, Ziyu Shao began playing the piano at the age of 6. Since 2018, he has been taking lessons from Elena Berezkina at the legendary Gnessin Music School in Moscow. He is a scholarship holder of the Vladimir Spivakov Foundation and has already performed with the Moscow Virtuoso Orchestra, the Gnessinsky's Virtuoso Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Philharmonic. Performances have taken him to Carnegie Hall in New York and the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, among others. In recent years, he has won numerous prizes at national and international piano competitions.

Prize winners 2023: Category II (14-17 years)

1st Prize

Anna Avramidou

Born in Cyprus in 2008, the Greek-born pianist received her first piano lessons at the age of 5. She played her first solo recital at the age of 9. She made her debut with the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra and the Vienna Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in 2018, followed by a performance with the Cyprus Symphony Orchestra in 2020. She has also won numerous prizes at piano competitions in Cyprus, Greece and Mexico. Since September 2022, Anna Avramidou has been attending Tessa Nicholson's piano class at the renowned Purcell School in the UK.

2nd Prize

Collins Tanujaya

The 17-year-old Indonesian, who received his first piano lessons from his mother at the age of three, is currently a junior student at the Munich University of Music and Theatre in the class of Prof. Yuka Imamine. Masterclasses have also taken him to Prof. Oleg Marshev (Linz), Prof. Sebastian Euler (Innsbruck) and Prof. Andreas Weber (Salzburg). He can look back on numerous international competition successes in the USA, Belgium and Germany and has already performed twice at prizewinners' concerts in New York's Carnegie Hall.

3rd Prize

Ildikó Rozsonits

She played the recorder at the age of 4, the piano at the age of 5 and was the youngest student to be accepted into the Liszt Music Academy's School for Exceptional Young Talents in Budapest at the age of 10. Born in 2006, the Hungarian fills entire pages of her CV with prizes at international piano competitions, including most recently 2nd prize at the Geneve Musicale International Piano Competition in Geneva (Switzerland). Last year, she was honoured with the Junior Prima Award, the most prestigious Hungarian prize for artists under the age of 30.

Special Awards

  • Special award in the amount of 1 000 Euros for the best interpretation of a work by Franz Liszt, donated by THE LISZT FONDATION: Anna Avramidou
  • Special award in the amount of 1 000 Euros for the best interpretation of of a contemporary work, donated by the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen: Ildikó Rozsonits
  • Special award in the amount of 1 000 Euros for the best interpretation of the chamber music work, donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Phoebe Papandrea
  • Special award in the amount of 1 000 Euros for the best interpretation of the baroque work, donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Linda Yuan
  • Special award in the amount of 1 000 Euros for the best interpretation of a classical sonata, donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Anna Avramidou
  • Special award in the amount of 900 Euros for the best improvisation or own composition, donated by the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Hessen-Thüringen: Jacob Cai
  • Theodor Hlouschek-Award in the amount of 250 Euros for the best interpretation of a Etude by Carl Czerny, donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Pei Lin Oisin Pu
  • Theodor Hlouschek-Award in the amount of 250 Euros for the best interpretation of a Etude by Carl Czerny, donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Linda Yuan
  • Theodor Hlouschek-Award in the amount of 500 Euros for a particularly gifted participant in the categorie I donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Yulianna Baziazychna
  • Theodor Hlouschek-Award in the amount of 500 Euros for a particularly gifted participant in the categorie II donated by the NEUE LISZT STIFTUNG: Milda Marija Kiškūnaitė
  • Grand-Prix in the amount of 2.000 Euros for a contestant with exceptional ability: Anna Avramidou