Established as the John and Renate Iles Medal, this award was endowed in 1993 by Pastmaster Iles in celebration of him becoming the fourth member of his family to hold that office. It has been organised by the Beethoven Piano Society of Europe since 1994. The competition aims to encourage Beethoven interpretation of the very highest standard, as well as to nurture young pianistic talent in Britain. An engraved Silver Medal is awarded to the winner as decided by a distinguished jury (winners also receive recitals in the BPSE concert series).

 

Past Winners:

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1994 - Polina Chersonskaya

1995 - Béla Hartmann

1996 - Midori Tamura

1997 - Damian Girvin

1998 - Inon Barantan

1999 - Chenyin Li

2000 - Sergei Salov

2001 - Anano Gokieli

2002 - Arta Arnicane

2003 - Tau Wey

2004 - Yoon-Kyung Kim

2005 - Mikhail Shilyaev

2006 - Samantha Ward

2007 - Jayson Gillham

2008 - Andrejs Osokins

2009 - Grace Yeo

2010 - Florian Mitrea

2011 - Erdem Misirlioglu

2012 - MinJung Baek

2013 - Maksim Stsura

2014 - Mihai Ritivoiu

2015 - Ilya Kondratiev

2016 - Andrei Iliushkin

2017 - Tolga Atalay Ün

2018 -