Piano Competitions

Premier Piano Competitions

For details of our premier piano competitions see the pages for the Emanuel Trophy Piano Competition  and the HGS Residents Association Piano Prize.

Other Piano Competitions

These will be held on the following dates in 2024 at the Hampstead Garden Suburb Free Church, Central Square, NW11 7AG

Sunday 14, Monday 14, Thursday 18 and Friday 19 April – Adjudicator: TBC

Monday 22, Friday 26 and Saturday 27 April – Adjudicator: TBC

Sunday 28 April –Adjudicator: TBC

Monday 6 May – Adjudicator: TBC

Friday 10 May – End of Festival Concert

Every competitor will receive a written adjudication sheet and a certificate of participation.

Please click here to download the 2023 Piano Syllabus

The closing date for piano classes is tbc.

Where entry depends on age, it is the age on 1st September before the date of the class so that all the entrants in a class are in the same school year.

If an entrant has been a pupil of the Adjudicator in the year prior to the Festival or is well-known to the Adjudicator, they should contact the Section Administrator before entering.

The European Piano Teachers Association Cup will be awarded to the most talented pianist under 16 years of age.

Entrants must provide the Adjudicator with a clean copy of the music for each work to be performed and pieces may not be repeated in different competitions.

The Festival would like to thank the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) for their generous sponsorship of the following graded piano competitions.

Sunday 28 April 2023 – from 3:00 pm

Adjudicator: tbc

Performers should play one or two pieces from ABRSM’s 2023-2024 Piano Syllabus for the grade for each class.  This class has been timetabled within ABRSM’s Spring 2023 exam session, providing performers with an opportunity to gain constructive feedback on their performance as they prepare for their exam. Every entrant receives a certificate and for each class the adjudicator may award 1st, 2nd and 3rd place medals and certificates.

ABRSM will provide a ‘goody bag’ for each performer and a prize of a book voucher for the winner of each category. These book vouchers can be used in the ABRSM’s shop, which stocks a wide range of publications.

There will be the following 5 classes:

  • 117 – Piano— any age, Grade 1 – time limit 3 minutes
  • 118 – Piano— any age, Grade 2 – time limit 4 minutes
  • 119 – Piano— any age, Grade 3 – time limit 4 minutes
  • 120 – Piano— any age, Grade 4 – time limit 5 minutes
  • 121 – Piano— any age, Grade 5 – time limit 6 minutes

Please click on the button below to enter. The first time that you use it, you will need to register.

The closing date for piano classes is tbc.

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The Grand Piano chosen and hired by the Festival for the 2022 competitions is supplied and maintained by Steinway & Sons, London.

2021 Piano Competition Winners and 2019 Emanuel Trophy and Applebe Piano Prize Competition winners

To see videos of these performances, click the ‘read more’ link below.

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