The registration for the 28th Johannes Brahms Competition is open.

As in the previous year, we are affected by planning uncertainties due to the COVID situation. Nevertheless, we intend to hold the competition as planned. However, if a cancellation should become necessary, we will announce this as early as possible. Should we have to cancel the competition, the registration fee will be refunded.

Click here to get to the registration page.
 
Application deadline: July 15th, 2021.

 

Parts of the competition will also be held in Velden.

Latest arrival day for the viola and cello sections is Saturday, 04.09.2021, for chamber music and voice, Sunday, 05.09.2021.

The prizewinners’ concert will take place on Sunday, 6 September at 5 p.m. in the Casineum Velden, where there is also an audience prize to be won.

Here you will find a list of reasonably priced apartments and bed and breakfasts.

 

Regulations

The regulations for this year’s competition are being worked on and will be published online soon. In general, no major changes are planned, but for the

Viola, however, the Sonata for Viola and Piano by Johannes Kropfitsch will have to be prepared as a compulsory piece in the 1st round. The sheet music for it can be downloaded here.

• Viola
• Score

The work is not to be presented in its entirety. You can choose:  movements 1, 2 and 3 or movements 3, 4 and 5.

In preparation, the composer Johannes Kropfitsch has provided a video of the piano part as a playalong.
Write to info@brahmscompetition.org and we will send you a link.

Furthermore, Johannes Kropfitsch has agreed to personally provide the piano accompaniment for the competition! We thank him very much!

Prize money

Viola, Cello, Song

First prize: EUR 3000.-
Second prize: EUR 1500.-
Third prize: EUR 750.-

Best song accompaniment

EUR 1500

Chamber Music

First prize: EUR 4000
Second Prize: EUR 2000.-
Third prize: EUR 1000

 

Corona permitting the 28th International Johannes Brahms Competition will be carried out in the categories

• cello
• chamber music
• lied and
• viola

from September 5th to September 12th 2021.

Registration will open in March 2021.

Minor changes of repertoire might be possible. Please keep looking at our website.

© Andrej Grilc

 

Congratulations!

The prizewinner’s concert will take place on Sunday, 9th 5pm at the Casineum Velden.

Violin

1st place: Adam Koch Christensen  

2nd place: Chiara Sannicandro

3rd place: Jiaqi Lu

Viola

1st place: Takehiro Konoe

2nd place: Momoko Aritomi

3rd place: Emiko Yuasa

Cello

1st place: Ettore Pagano

2nd place: Jaromir Kostka

3rd place: Jeongheon Nam

Voice

1st place: Misaki Morino  

2nd place: Sofia Pavone

3rd place: Hongyu Chen

Best voice accompanist

Yuto Kiguchi

Special awards

ESTA award

Maria Sotriffer and Erik Mayr

Special prize of the Johannes Brahms Society

Erik Mayr

Special prize by Johannes Kropfitsch for the best presentation of the modern compulsory piece “Toccata” from the Cello Sonata by Johannes Kropfitsch

Jeongheon Nam

We are pleased to announce two concerts of former prize winners.

On 27.12.2019 the STRATOS QUARTETT, winner of the chamber music competition 2013, and on 30.12.2019 the “Atalante Quartet”, 3rd prize chamber music 2018, will play at the Bösendorfersaal in the Mozarthaus Vienna.

Both concerts are organized by the Künstlerforum.

On June 9th, Luca Giovannini, prizewinner of the 25th International Johannes Brahms Competition is invited to play the Dvorak cello concert in Tokyo, Suntory Hall under the baton of Yuki Miyagi and the Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra.

In 2018 several former price winners of the Johannes Brahms Competitiors are invited to play concerts in Japan.

• Johannes Marcel Kits, winner of the cello competition in 2016, will be playing a concert in Tokyo in February 2018, as well as one in Utsunomiya.
• The duo YUI Kasumi (piano) and PARK Soo-Hyun (violin), winners of the chamber music in 2016, will give a concert in Utsunomiya in May.
• Belle Ting, second in the Violin competition in 2017, was invited to Japan for a concert in December 2018.

On October 2, 2017, Paul Kropfitsch, winner of the Violin section of the 23rd International Johannes Brahms Competition, was invited by Maestro Yuki Miyagi to give a concert in the Suntory Hall Tokyo.