Awards
  • 2013
    SWR2 New Talent Award
  • 2012
    Prize of the Usedom Music Festival
  • 2012
    Prize of the Schwarzwald Music Festival
  • 2012
    Music Award by the city of Osnabrück
  • 2011
    ARD International Piano Competition
    1st Prize
    Audience Prize
    Special Award of Freunde junger Musiker, Munich
    Special Award of Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
    Special Award of Schwarzwald Music Festival
    Special Award “Osnabrücker Musikpreis”
  • 2010
    Fellowship of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation
  • 2009
    Praetorius Advancement Award of the federal state of Niedersachsen
  • 2009
    Advancement Award of the federal state of Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • 2009
    International Anton G. Rubinstein Piano Competition Dresden
    1st Prize and the Audience favourite Prize
  • 2009
    Leeds International Piano Competition
    2nd Prize and the Silver Medal
  • 2009
    AXA Dublin International Piano Competition
    1st Prize
    RTÉ Lyric fm Prize for the best performance of a commissioned piece
  • 2008
    The German Music Competition
    1st Prize
  • 2008
    Seoul International Music Competition
    2nd Prize
  • 2008
    International Piano Competition “ZF-Musikpreis 2008”
    1st Prize
  • 2007
    International Beethoven Competition Bonn
    Audience’s favourite Prize
  • 2006
    VI. Hamamatsu International Piano Competition, Japan
    1st Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a Japanese work
  • 2006
    Beethoven Piano Competition Richard Laugs, Germany
    1st Prize and Special Prize for the best performance of a late Beethoven Sonata
  • 2006
    International August Everding Piano Competition Munich
    1st Prize
  • 2005
    XV. International Chopin Competition Warsaw
    Semifinalist Diploma
  • 2005
    National German Music Competition “Bundeswettbewerb Jugend Musiziert”
    1st Prize with the highest possible score
    1st Prize Classical Period
  • 2004
    International Piano Competition “Klavierforum Wien”, Austria
    1st Prize and Grand Prix
  • 2004
    Grotrian-Steinweg Piano Competition Braunschweig, Germany
    1st Prize
    Karl-Heinz Kämmerling Award
  • 2003
    Steinway Piano Competition Hamburg, Germany
    1st Prize
  • 2003
    Grotrian-Steinweg Piano Competition Braunschweig, Germany
    1st Prize
  • 2003
    International Vladimir Horowitz Piano Competition in Kiew, Ukraine
    4th Prize
  • 2002
    Steinway Piano Competition Berlin, Germany
    1st Prize
  • 2002
    International Piano Competition Ettlingen, Germany
    2nd Prize
  • 2002
    Robert Schumann Piano Competition for young Pianists in Zwickau, Germany
    1st Prize
    Jehudi Menuhin Special Award for the best competition participant
  • 2002
    Pianohaus Lang Piano Competition in Munich, Germany)
    1st Prize