Dr. Hermann Büttner Piano Competition 2024

Registration deadline Friday, May 10, 2024

Eligible to participate are students of the Karlsruhe University of Music in the Bachelor, Master, Soloist Exam and School Music programs as well as pre-school students.

Procedure and repertoire
The competition will be held in two rounds.
First round
- a prelude and fugue from the
Well-Tempered Clavier by Johann Sebastian Bach
- a virtuoso etude of your choice
- plus freely chosen works
The total playing time should not exceed 30 minutes.
Second round on June 9th
- Piano Quintet in F minor op. 34 by Johannes Brahms
The work will be rehearsed and played with a string quartet provided by the competition.
Jury deliberation and announcement of the competition result and the amount of prize money after the end of the second round.

Prize winners' concert
Friday - June 14, 2024 - Velte Hall
Participation of the prizewinners is obligatory.

Applications
The number of participants is limited. Applications must be submitted by email and consist of
- a brief curriculum vitae (approx. 1,000 characters each)
- Information about the current study program and the teacher
- the exact program (detailed information on works and movements, including duration).
E silke.blume@hfm-karlsruhe.de

Prize money
Prizes and sponsorship awards totaling €15,000 will be awarded. The jury decides on the awarding of the prize money. The awarding of the prize money is tied to the continuation of studies at the Karlsruhe University of Music for the duration of the following semester.

Jury
The jury, chaired by Dr. Hermann Büttner, consists exclusively of experts who are not members of the Karlsruhe University of Music.

The Dr. Hermann Büttner Piano Competition has been held annually at the Karlsruhe University of Music since 1998. Predominantly piano solo was on the program. In some years, other genres were also performed, such as a compulsory program with piano and two strings, piano and oboe, piano with voice, piano duo or piano concertos. In 2012, a competition (piano solo) was held only for preschoolers in two age groups. Chamber music also came to the fore: in recent years there have been competitions for piano and cello, for trio with piano and for piano quartet. This year, for the first time, a competition for piano and violin will be held. Scholarships, main prizes and special prizes awarded to the winners are intended to further the education of students at the Karlsruhe University of Music.

Originally, the Karlsruhe lawyer Dr. Hermann Büttner organized this competition on his own initiative. In order to sustain this valuable support, Dr. Hermann Büttner and his wife Edith Adler-Büttner established the Adler Büttner Foundation in 2016. Its goal is to promote musical education, including professional preparation for all students and preschoolers at the Karlsruhe University of Music. This is to be done through competitions and advanced training events, but also through special support of selected projects of the university. The foundation focuses on, but does not exclusively pursue, the subject of piano. It has now been running the piano competition since 2017.