Registration: until July23th 2023

International Piano competition for Amateurs

The Cologne Klavierzimmer is an international piano competition for amateurs and will take place from August 23th 2023 until  August 27th 2023.

The competition is open for all piano lovers all over the world. This year we are expanding the Klavierzimmer adding two new categories: Piano Four Hands and Chamber Music Piano/Violin.

The competition is called Klavierzimmer – Piano Room – because it emphasizes the idea of the private and contrasts it with the professional musical career. It is foremost aimed at adult piano lovers, regardless of age. While you can get together with other instruments in orchestras of lovers, as a piano-playing person you sometimes remain quite alone. Here you can show the results of your practicing. 

The primary goal is to share the experience of piano playing: the Klavierzimmer is conceived as a competition that allows an inspiring togetherness. It offers the opportunity to display and expand one’s skill level, to play for oneself and others, to listen, to reflect, to meet like-minded people, and to receive new thoughts in the unifying and magical power of the piano.

The competition idea is based on the great need for live music and live performances, which is the reason for a a hybrid concept. Everyone is welcome and can participate either online or with a live performance.

This brief presentation of our idea culminates in Egon Friedell’s declaration of love for dilettantism3 

Only talents are original, geniuses only repeat the same truths over and over again.

According to the applicable hygiene regulations, the award winners will have a final concert either in open air form or at the competition location in the Kunigunde sound space. The concert will take place on Sunday, August 27th, 2023 at 3 p.m. and is public.

Conditions of participation

The competition is addressed to people of all ages. It is essential that you do not earn your living by playing the piano in public, in whole or in part, and that you are not a piano or violin student at a Hochschule or University. 

After all, this is for the amateurs! 

All participants in presence play on a beautiful Bösendorfer grand piano in the church St. Heinrich und Kunigund, Cologne-Nippes. 

There is also the possibility of online participation by sending in one or more videos. A separate video may be recorded for each piece.

The videos may not be cut or edited in any way. The videos must be recorded explicitly for the Cologne Klavierzimmer. To make this clear, please place a paper with the inscription “Third Kölner Klavierzimmer” clearly visible in the camera.

The videos will be sent by email to: wettbewerb@klavierzimmer.com via wetransfer.com.
We will then upload the videos to the competition YouTube channel after judging and with your consent.

Registration on the site is open from April 1st to July 23th 2023.

Repertoire

The repertoire of the participants is free to choose. Everyone should present himself with his favorite pieces, also own compositions, from 5 to a maximum of 15 minutes. Playing from memory is welcome but not obligatory. This applies to the live performance as well as to the video recording.

The competition will be held in one round only

Jury

The jury consists of personalities from the piano world who are highly experienced in both
concert performance and pedagogy, and for whom the artistic idea of amateur music-making
occupies an important position in everyday life.

Participation categories

The competition is aimed at piano players of all ages. There are 7 age categories.

A • 4-8 years (born 2015 and later)
                   B • 9-12 years (born 2011-2014)
C • 13-16 years (born 2007-20010)
                   D • 17-21 years (born 2002-2006)
E • 22-41 years (born 1982- 2001)
                   F • 42-65 years (born 1958-1981)
G • 66-99 years (born before 1957)

The participation fee is 35 Euros for categories A,B,C and D.
The participation fee is 65 Euros for categories E,F, and G.

Participants whose teachers are members of the DTKV will receive a 10% off.

Final concert

There will be a public final concert on Sunday, August 27th 2023 at 3 pm. Videos of the online participants and the final concert of the first Cologne Piano Room in August 2022 can be found at: final concert  

Prizes

Prizes are awarded according:

All participants will receive a diploma
The first prize for each group will be a professional video/sound recording, which will be made freely available to the prize winners

special_prize

Invitation to the Bösendorfer piano factory

Further prizes: Concert participation, money prize, music score, vouchers etc.

Contact

Georg Kugler +49 178 30 72 076

Svetlana Dedova +49 17662020171 (WhatsApp)

Partner

Contact

Klavierzimmer e.V.
Gocher Strasse 19
50733 Köln, Germany

Tel.: +49 221 13 95 40 99 wettbewerb@klavierzimmer.com

Bank details

Klavierzimmer e.V.
IBAN:DE39 3705 0198 1935 8763 40 SWIFT/BIC: COLSDE33

Kölner Klavierwettbewerb für Amateure 2023
International Piano Competition for connoisseurs and amateurs 2023

Klavierpartner senden bitte ein separates Anmeldeformular/ Piano partners please send a separate registration

Winners 2021:

  1. Simon Niegemann, 16 years old, Erbachtal
  2. Werner Kiefer, 69 years old, Köln
  3. Clara Mignon Reuter, 9 years old Köln
  4. Peter Grooterhorst, 64 years old, Köln
  5. Mahyan Kamran, 29 years old, Köln
  6. Anastasia Boyakova 16 years old, Kiel
  7. David Depouhr 13 years old, Düsseldorf
  8. Alina Han – 12 years old, Rendsburg
  9. Joachim Baudisch – 65 years old, Mössingen
  10. Laura Samodovs – 14 years old, Kiel
  11. Jana Schuller – 10 years old, Düren
  12. Arend Just – 73 years old, Stolberg
  13. Yihan Jiang – 6 years old, Rendsburg
  14. Frede Sander Gerschweski – 11 years old, Kiel
  15. Pavel Chistyakov – 37 years old, Moskau
  16. Dr. Hans-Heiner Rudolph, 68 Years old, Bad Soden/Taunus