Meet our candidates!

34 pianists from 16 nations selected

More than 250 young pianists applied and performed for us during our international Screening Auditions.

We are extremely looking forward to welcoming the following 34 pianists from 16 nations at the 15th International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna 2017:

Chae-bin An: Republic of Korea
Eunhee Baek: Republic of Korea
Alexander Bernstein: USA
Bolai Cao: China
Kyubin Chung: Republic of Korea
Michael Cohen-Weissert: Germany/Israel
Ben Cruchley: Canada
Marta Czech: Poland
Sophie Druml: Austria/USA
Florian Feilmair: Austria
Maximilian Flieder: Austria
Anna Grot: Russian Federation
Kana Hirose: Japan
Sahun Hong: USA
Shan-Chi Hsu: Taiwan
Jingzi Huang: China
Dorothy Khadem-Missagh: Austria
Atsuko Kinoshita: Japan
Maximilian Kromer: Austria
Shihyun Lee: Republic of Korea
Rodolfo Leone: Italy
Zhenni Li: China
Shuang Liang: China
Adela Liculescu: Romania
Marta Menezes: Portugal
Fabian Müller: Germany
Akihiro Sakiya: Japan
Zhora Sargsyan: Armenia
Philipp Scheucher: Austria
Hans Suh: Republic of Korea
Emre Yavuz: Turkey
Sahara Yoshida: Japan
Akane Yoshida: Japan
Maria Yulin: Israel

The First Round kicks off on 29 May 2017 – join us!

Come and listen!

Tickets are already available

Join us from 28 May to 8 June, when Vienna is full of Beethoven's music

The visit of the 1st round of the 15th International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna is free for all visitors thanks to a kind donation by BONARTES Privatstiftung.

The First Round takes place from 29 May to 3 June at the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Tickets for the Opening Soirée on 28 May, for the Second Round on 5 June and 6 June and for the Finale on 8 June are already available online and at the Daytime box office of Musikverein Vienna.

Find all dates and ticket information summed up here

Competition Office: International Beethoven Piano Competition Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1 1030 Vienna - AUSTRIA beethoven-comp@mdw.ac.at www.beethoven-comp.at