SCHUMANN CHAMBER MUSIC PRIZE FRANKFURT 2025

From March 11 to 13, 2025, the HfMDK will be a mee­ting place for in­ter­na­tio­nal cham­ber mu­sic en­sem­bles. In the pia­no trio ca­te­go­ry, ten en­sem­bles will com­pe­te for the Schu­mann Cham­ber Mu­sic Pri­ze Frank­furt 2025. The fi­nal round will take place at the Alte Oper Frank­furt.

In­spi­ra­ti­on Schu­mann - mee­ting place for cham­ber mu­sic
The com­pe­ti­ti­on was laun­ched back in 2008 as the Com­merz­bank Cham­ber Mu­sic Pri­ze and fo­cu­sed on the pia­no trio and pia­no quar­tet gen­res from the out­set. It has re­mai­ned true to this fo­cus un­der its new name - af­ter all, Ro­bert Schu­mann was a grand mas­ter of pia­no cham­ber mu­sic. The Main me­tro­po­lis also had a spe­cial si­gni­fi­can­ce for Ro­bert and Cla­ra Schu­mann. And be­cau­se many con­tem­pora­ry com­po­sers still find Ro­bert Schu­mann an im­portant source of in­spi­ra­ti­on to­day, a work by Ro­bert Schu­mann or one of his epo­chal com­pa­n­ions is al­ways a com­pul­so­ry pie­ce in the com­pe­ti­ti­on.

The pri­zes
The win­ning tri­os will be de­ter­mi­ned in three rounds of the com­pe­ti­ti­on. They can look for­ward to pri­zes with a to­tal va­lue of 18,000 eu­ros, fol­low-up con­certs and a me­dia pro­duc­tion as well as a spe­cial pri­ze from the Schu­mann So­cie­ty.

Fol­lo­wing the com­pe­ti­ti­on, the en­sem­bles in the fi­nal round can take part in a work­shop and coa­ching day. The mu­si­ci­ans work with pro­fes­sio­nals and con­cert or­ga­ni­zers to hone their en­sem­ble pro­fi­le.

The jury
The re­now­ned mem­bers of the jury - Mar­tin Fun­da, An­ge­li­ka Merk­le, Ste­fan Hei­nemey­er, Hei­me Mül­ler and Bart van de Roer - will be avail­ab­le to ans­wer ques­ti­ons from each en­sem­ble af­ter the live rounds.

The ve­nues
The se­cond round of the in­ter­na­tio­nal cham­ber mu­sic com­pe­ti­ti­on will be held at the HfMDK on March 11 and 12.

The fi­nal round with the awar­ding of an au­di­ence pri­ze will take place on March 13, 2025 in the Mo­zart Hall of the Alte Oper Frank­furt as part of the re­now­ned cham­ber mu­sic se­ries of the Frank­fur­ter Mu­se­ums-Ge­sell­schaft .
In the first part of the evening, the three fi­na­list en­sem­bles selec­ted by the jury, which qua­li­fied for the fi­nal on the two pre­vious days, will pre­sent them­sel­ves.
Af­ter a break for de­li­be­ra­ti­on, the pri­zes will be an­noun­ced in the se­cond part of the evening, as will the au­di­ence pri­ze.

Thank you to the spon­sor and part­ners
The Schu­mann Cham­ber Mu­sic Pri­ze Frank­furt is or­ga­ni­zed by the Frank­furt Uni­ver­si­ty of Mu­sic and Per­forming Arts (HfMDK) and si­gni­fi­cant­ly sup­por­ted by the Dr. Mar­sch­ner Foun­da­ti­on. Part­ners are the Frank­fur­ter Mu­se­ums-Ge­sell­schaft, the Ro­bert Schu­mann-Ge­sell­schaft Frank­furt, the HfMDK Foun­da­ti­on and the Fes­te­burg­kon­zer­te as well as the cul­tu­ral part­ner hr2 kul­tur.