AMADION is a prestigious piano competition and award of merit established in Vienna to honor young piano students who engage deeply with the works, styles, and spirit of iconic composers such as Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Rachmaninoff and other great masters, in a unique and artistically meaningful way.
More than 2,500 music universities, conservatories, and academies from over 130 countries are among the invited institutions.
The evaluation of performances focuses on interpretation, as well as technical precision, stylistic accuracy, and stage presence. The AMADION Jury consists of renowned concert pianists and piano professors, selected for their expertise in interpretation, pedagogy, and artistic evaluation, ensuring a fair and high-level assessment of all submissions.
In addition to the main categories, pianists will also be honored in two special categories: Best Solo Piano Album of the Year and Artist for the Next Generation.
The official ceremony of AMADION – Amadeus International Piano Awards 2025 will take place on November 27, 2025, at the Ehrbar Hall in Palais Ehrbar, in Vienna. All winners will perform live on stage as part of the evening’s artistic program. The event will be hosted by professional presenters and broadcast live. Coverage will span national and international cultural and television networks, radio stations, and digital platforms dedicated to classical music and the arts.
Awarded to a distinguished pianist who has demonstrated exceptional commitment to nurturing young talent through educational projects, foundations, or mentorship programs, positively impacting the next generation of musicians.
Awarded to a solo piano album released in 2025 that exemplifies expressive interpretation, high-quality sound production, and a clear, compelling artistic vision.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Johann Sebastian Bach, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Ludwig van Beethoven, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Frederic Chopin, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Franz Liszt, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Johannes Brahms, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Achille-Claude Debussy, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Sergei Wassiljewitsch Rachmaninow, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Igor Strawinsky, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Joseph-Maurice Ravel, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Georg Friedrich Händel, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Louis Couperin, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Johann Ludwig Krebs, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by François Couperin, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Jean-Philippe Rameau, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by William Byrd, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by José António Carlos de Seixas, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Georg Philipp Telemann, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Antonio Francisco Javier José Soler Ramos, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Franz Joseph Haydn, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Johann Ladislaus Dussek, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Friedrich Burgmüller, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Franz Peter Schubert, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Robert Schumann, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Charles Valentin Alkan, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Christian August Sinding, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Alexander Nikolajewitsch Skrjabin, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Charles Camille Saint-Saëns, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Edvard Hagerup Grieg, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Johann Baptist Joseph Maximilian Reger, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Dmitri Dmitrijewitsch Schostakowitsch, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Olivier Eugène Prosper Charles Messiaen, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Paul Hindemith, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Bela Bartok, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Arnold Schönberg, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by György Sándor Ligeti, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Pierre Louis Joseph Boulez, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Best Karlheinz Stockhausen Interpretation Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Leonard Bernstein, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Erik Satie, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
Awarded to the pianist for an outstanding interpretation of a work by Philip Glass, demonstrating exceptional artistry, technical skill, musical depth, and stylistic authenticity, regardless of the chosen piece.
