Dmitri Levkovich has won the prestigious German Piano Award "Deutscher Pianistenpreis 2013" in Frankfurt am Main.
The "German Piano Award" is an annually presented piano award taking place during the international Frankfurt Music Fair. It focuses on the promotion of outstanding young performing personalities. The "German Piano Award" is an initiative of the "International Piano Forum". Welcome to apply are students in their Master studies and graduates from German and their International Partner Universities of Music or Conservatories. From the elite of young pianists, who perform solo recitals and orchestral concerts worldwide, the six most creative among them are chosen by an independent Jury and invited to Frankfurt am Main. The six nominees present their repertoire to the audience in a public concert at the Alte Oper, Frankfurt am Main.
Dmitri Levkovich
The "German Piano Award" is endowed with € 20,000. All nominees receive a prestigious certificate as well as an invitation to perform at the "Piano Skyline Festival". The other Nominees 2013 were: Gábor Farkas, Universität für Musik Franz Liszt Budapest, Viviana Lasaracina, Royal Academy of Music London, England, Alexey Pudinov, Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, Edoardo Turbil, High School of Music in Fiesole, Italy, Thomas Wypior, Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Germany. The winner of the First German Piano Award in 2011 in Frankfurt was Amir Tebenikhin. In March 2012 Lukas Geniusas won the Second German Piano Award.
