Competition 2025

dFrom February 26 to March 9, 2025, the ninth edition of the YPF competition will take place. After the success of the Young Pianist Foundation’s first European competition in 2022, the 2025 competition is again aimed at young pianists with a passport from one of the member states of the European Union, including the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The YPF European Piano Competition 2025 – Grand Prix Youri Egorov, will again take place at the Bimhuis and Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam and is open to pianists up to and including the age of 27. The young talents will compete in front of the renowned international jury for a place in the finals on March 9 and, naturally, for the first prize and, who knows, the Grand Prix Youri Egorov.

Registration for the YPF competition closed on November 15, 2024. On or around December 15, 2024, the pre-selection jury, led by Thomas Beijer, will announce the 20 quarter-finalists.

From February 26 to March 5, 2025, the quarter-finals and semi-finals will take place at the Bimhuis, Amsterdam.

The final of the junior piano competition ‘TOETSEN‘ (‘KEYS’) – which the YPF is organizing in cooperation with Liszt Utrecht (and is open to children ages 11 through 17, living in The Netherlands) – will take place on Saturday, March 8 at the BIMHUIS.

On Saturday evening, March 8, members of the international jury as well as Thomas Beijer will play during A Tribute to Youri Egorov. This concert, in honor of Youri Egorov and his philosophy of giving young pianists the opportunity to develop, has become a true YPF tradition and every time it is special to attend because of the large number of master pianists in one evening.

The final of the YPF European Piano Competition 2025 – Grand Prix Youri Egorov will take place on Sunday afternoon, March 9, 2025 at Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ in Amsterdam. The three finalists will play a piano solo (world premiere of a work commissioned by the YPF and composed by the young Dutch composer Jan-Peter de Graaff) and one of the concerto’s by Beethoven or the concerto by Schumann. The finalists are accompanied by Phion, Orchestra of Gelderland & Overijssel under the baton of Benjamin Levy.

Below you will find the ‘Participation Rules’ and the Repertoire for the YPF European Piano Competition 2025. The information is in English because English will be the official language of the competition.

The scores of the newly commissioned work will shared with the participants in due time.