The 22-year-old pianist Maximilian Kromer is the sixth CARSA winner.

The International Fritz Kreisler Society has been holding its competition every four years since 1979.

This is Vienna’s first and only singing competition devoted exclusively to Austrian composers’ Lied (art song) output.

25 musicians from 15 countries qualified to participate in this renowned competition.

The fifth edition of what has now become Vienna’s largest competition for opera singers once again saw over 120 participants from all over the world gather at Schlosstheater Schönbrunn.

Over 250 candidates registered for the competition’s 15th edition.

It was a brilliant concert by the prizewinning ensembles at MuTh that topped off the internationally renowned Joseph Haydn Chamber Music Competition.

The award, worth € 10,000, went this year to the young saxophonist Marko Dzomba.