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Polish pianist wins prize in Germany

10.06.2026 14:45
Polish pianist Szymon Nehring has won the Hamburg Symphony Orchestra's 2026 Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize, which honours the British conductor who led the orchestra from 2009 until his death in 2017.
Szymon Nehring
Szymon NehringPiotr Podlewski/PR2

Nehring received the EUR 10,000 award at a concert at Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle on Sunday.

The Sir Jeffrey Tate Prize has been awarded every two years since 2020 to exceptionally talented young musicians.

Previous recipients include British violist Timothy Ridout (2020), Spanish pianist Martín García García (2022) and Portuguese accordionist João Barradas (2024).

Born in 1995, Nehring is one of Poland's leading pianists. He graduated from the Academy of Music in the north-central city of Bydgoszcz and later from Yale University in the United States.

He was a finalist in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 2015.

Two years later, he won the International Arthur Rubinstein Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, becoming the first Pole to claim the top prize at the prestigious event in Israel.

Nehring has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Tonhalle Zürich, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid and the Musikverein in Vienna.

His discography includes works by Chopin and Szymanowski, as well as contemporary Polish composers Krzysztof Penderecki and Paweł Mykietyn.

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Source: The Violin Channel