Press release – Sunday 01/06/2025 – Brussels
For immediate release
Nikola Meeuwsen wins the 2025 Piano Competition!
The International Queen Elisabeth Grand Prize – Queen Mathilde Prize receives EUR 25.000 and numerous concerts in Belgium and abroad.
The ranking of the laureates
INTERNATIONAL QUEEN ELISABETH GRAND PRIZE: €25.000
First Prize – Queen Mathilde Prize
Nikola Meeuwsen
BELGIAN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PRIZE: €20.000
Second Prize, awarded by the Belgian Science Policy
Wataru Hisasue
COUNT DE LAUNOIT PRIZE: €17.000
Third Prize
Valère Burnon
PRIZE OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE BELGIAN COMMUNITIES: €12.500
Fourth Prize, this year awarded by the Government of the Flemish-speaking Community of Belgium
Arthur Hinnewinkel
BRUSSELS-CAPITAL REGION PRIZE: €10.000
Fifth Prize
Masaya Kamei
CITY OF BRUSSELS PRIZE: €8.000
Sixth Prize
Sergey Tanin
WITH THE SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL LOTTERY
each of the six unranked laureates will receive €4.000.
Rachel Breen
Mirabelle Kajenjeri
Shiori Kuwahara
Nathalia Milstein
Jiaxin Min
Yuki Yoshimi
Valère Burnon wins the Musiq3 Prize and the VRT CANVAS/Klara Prize.
Learn more about the laureates on our website.
Replay
Thanks to the live streaming that has brought their performances around the world, the candidates have received unprecedented attention as from the very start of the Competition. The live stream was available on several platforms, including our own website. The semi-final and final were also successfully broadcast on the radio and television channels and digital platforms of Belgian broadcasters VRT and RTBF. All the performances of Piano 2025 can be replayed on our website : www.queenelisabethcompetition.be.
Laureates’ concerts
We kick off with the recitals by the unranked laureates on Wednesday 4th of June and Thursday 5th of June at 8.15pm at Flagey.
The laureates’ concert, with the 4th, 5th and 6th laureates and the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, conducted by Martijn Dendievel, will take place on Monday 9th of June at 8.15 pm in the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. The concert will be broadcast live on Musiq3 and rebroadcast on Klara on Wednesday 11th of June. The same concert will also be given in Liege, Wednesday 11th of June, and in Bruges, Saturday 14th of June.
The closing concert with the 1st, 2nd and 3rd laureates and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marc Albrecht, is scheduled on Wednesday 11th of June at 8.15 pm in the Brussels Centre for Fine Arts. The concert will be broadcast live on Musiq3 and Klara, and will later also be shown on VRT MAX, Auvio, La Trois and VRT CANVAS.
The first three laureates will also perform in Bruges (Saturday 7th of June, Concertgebouw), in Ghent (Sunday 8th of June, De Bijloke), in Hasselt (Monday 9th of June, Cultureel Centrum) and finally, in Antwerp (Tuesday 10th of June, Koningin Elisabethzaal).
The first two laureates will tour with the Belgian National Orchestra, conducted by Jesko Sirvend, in Leuven (Wednesday 25th of June, Schouwburg), in Charleroi (Thursday 26th of June, Centre for Fine Arts), in Namur (Saturday 28th of June, Namur Concert Hall) and in Saint-Vith (Sunday 29th of June, Triangel cultural center).
On Friday 27th of June, the RTBF’s audience favourite, Valère Burnon, gets to perform at the Festival Musiq3 in Flagey.
Up-to-date information regarding dates and reservation options is available in the concert calendar on our website.
4CD box
“Piano 2025” will be available as of Saturday 7th of June, containing works performed by the laureates during the semi-final and the final. Find out the programme of the 4CD box set as from Monday 2nd of June on shop.queenelisabethcompetition.be.