Martin Nöbauer wins 2nd prize at the International Beethoven Piano Competition
At the 17th International Beethoven Piano Competition, organised by the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), pianist Martin Nöbauer won the 2nd prize worth a total of 12,000 euros (ex aequo with Jonas Stark) as well as the Klemens Kramert special prize worth 2,000 euros. Our warmest congratulations!
Austrian pianist Martin Nöbauer plays on both modern and historical instruments. His success in 2023 as a finalist at the Second International Chopin Competition on period instruments in Warsaw resulted in the Fryderyk Chopin Institute recently releasing a CD of his recordings from the competition. He is first prize winner of the international piano competition ‘Classic on Danube’ in Vienna as well as the piano competition of the Hildegard Maschmann Foundation, which is organised at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and is aimed at European concert pianists from Austrian music universities. Together with Elisabeth Leonskaja, he performed at the Stars and Rising Stars Festival (Munich) and recently in the Great Hall of the Brucknerhaus in Linz. In the current season, he will make his debut at the international music festival ‘Chopin and his Europe’ in Warsaw, among others.
Martin Nöbauer began his studies at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz and is currently studying piano with Pavel Gililov at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He received further artistic impulses in fortepiano lessons with Wolfgang Brunner, with Boris Petrushansky at the Fondazione Accademia Internazionale di Imola and as a scholarship holder of the Aspen Music Festival and School, the Theo and Petra Lieven Piano Foundation and the Music Academy in Liechtenstein, where he regularly takes part in intensive weeks as a student of the Imperial Programme.