Prizes

$33,000 First Prize

  • $28,000 The City of Greater Shepparton Prize
  • $5,000 The Daphne Turnbull Bursary for music career development

The First Prize recipient may be offered other recital engagements with a performance fee subsequent to the Award.

$13,000 Second Prize

  • $10,000 The Fairley Foundation Prize
  • $3,000 The Daphne Turnbull Bursary for music career development

$7,000 Third Prize

  • $5,000 The Beleura, John Tallis Prize
  • $2,000 The Daphne Turnbull Bursary for music career development

Special prizes

$1,000 The Max Cooke Encouragement Award
Sponsored by the Australian National Piano Award
$1,000 The Shepparton News Prize
Best performance of a work by Bach
$1,000 The Leona and Bruce Sterling Prize
Best performance of a work by Mozart or Beethoven
$1,000 The Jenny Houlihan Prize 
Best performance of a work by Haydn or Schubert
$1,000 The Pam Wells Prize 
Best performance of a work by Chopin
$1,000 The Horton Family Prize 
Best performance of Romantic-era repertoire (excluding Chopin) or 20th-century music up to 1950
$5,000 The Andreadis Family Australian Composition Commission Prize 
Best performance of music composed from 1951 onwards
$5,000 Prize for best performance as voted by the audience
The Andreadis Family Australian Composition Commission Prize

The prize supports the commissioning of a new work by an Australian composer. The commissioned piece is intended to be premiered and performed by the prize recipient at a later date.