The Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition (FS&MM) is an international triennial chamber music contest held in Graz, Austria. It was founded in 1989 by the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz.
The chamber music competition is one of three major competitions held in Austria, the other two being the International Mozart Competition in Salzburg and the Beethoven International Music Competition in Vienna.
The competition's mission is to present Schubert's chamber music in the context of contemporary chamber works so as to simultaneously interpret, at the highest level, the music of Franz Schubert alongside modern music.
There is also an international composition competition held under the auspices of the FS&MM that endeavours to encourage the creation of new chamber works. The 7th edition of the International Composition Competition Piano Trio was held in 2024 and sought contemporary compositions for Piano Trio (piano, violin and violoncello). The winning composition became a set work in the piano trio repertoire of the second round of the main competition held in February 2025, and led to the winning work's premiere with repeat performances. Composers from 54 countries submitted 206 trios.
The 12th international chamber music competition was held 8âÂÂ15 February 2025, at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. The eligibility requirements for the 2025 competition were for international musicians born after 15 February 1989. For this edition of the competition 49 ensembles were selected from 325 overall entrants from 44 countries.
The categories were:
The prizes awarded in the 12th competition totalled more than â¬74,000 and included mentoring and professional advice on career development for the winners of the first prizes.
The jury for the Lied Duo category comprised Joseph Breinl (Germany), Lina Maria ÃÂ kerlund (Switzerland), Iain Burnside (Great Britain), Samuel Hasselhorn (Germany), Manuela Kerer (Italy), Tony Spence (Great Britain), Pauliina Tukiainen (Finland) and Sarah Wegener (Germany/Great Britain).
The jury for the Piano Trio category comprised Chia Chou (Canada), Vincent Coq (France), Ellen Margrete Flesjø (Norway), Thomas Hoppe (Germany), Anssi Karttunen (Finland), Minna Pensola (Finland), Isabelle Van Keulen (The Netherlands) and Katharina Wincor (Australia).
The Piano Duo jury members were: Sivan-Silver-Garburg & Gil Garburg (Israel), Shani Diluka (France), Carlo Fabiano (Italy), Rico Gulda (Austria), Götz Schumacher (Germany), Adrienne Soós (Hungary/Switzerland), Arie Vardi (Israel) and Lena-Lisa Wüstendörfer (Switzerland).
For the finals, the jury was augmented with five culturally prominent people from the music world: Annett Baumeister (Germany), Inna Davidova (Latvia), Birgit Hinterholzer (Austria), Ulf Werner (Germany), and Michael Nemeth (Austria).
The semifinals were held over two days, 10âÂÂ11 February 2025.
Duo for voice and piano (Lied)
Trio for piano, violin and violoncello
Piano Duo
Four duos for voice and piano, four piano trios and three piano duos were admitted to the final round which was held over two days, 12 to 13 February 2025.
Duo for voice and piano (Lied)
Trio for piano, violin and violoncello
Piano Duo
Duo for voice and piano (Lied):
Trio for piano, violin and violoncello:
Piano Duo:
The 2022 competition saw 36 lied duos and 24 piano trios enter the first round after having been selected from a total of 249 instrumentalists from 40 countries. More specifically, 36 out of 75 applicants were admitted to the first round of the duo for voice and piano category and 24 out of 33 applicants made it through to the piano trio first round. These were further pared-down to 12 lied duos and 9 piano trios in the semifinals.
In the 2022 finals, the first prize was not awarded in the lied duo category.
The third-tier category was awarded with a special prize for the best interpretation of a specially commissioned work, On White Meadows, by Judith Weir.
The 10th international chamber music competition was held between 19 and 28 February 2018, in Graz and around â¬100,000 in aggregate prize value across the various categories was awarded.
During the course of the competition, 341 entrants from 56 countries forming 92 duos for voice and piano, 35 trios for piano, violin and cello and 13 string quartets, competed for the chamber music awards.
The first and second categories in the competition were lied duo and piano trio, however, the third category in the 2018 competition was for string quartet. This edition of the competition also had an Audience Engagement Award that was given to the Gildas Quartet.
The second round of the piano trio category saw the world première of Stück 2 (2017) by Jungjik Kim of South Korea, the award-winning piano trio from the 2017 composition competition edition of the Franz Schubert and Modern Music Competition.
String quartet
The ÃÂtma Quartet, from Poland, won an incentive award and the Bärenreiter Urtext Prize. A special career advancement prize was awarded to the New Music Quartet (Poland).
Lied duo
Piano trio