Wettbewerb des Deutschen Musikinstrumentenfonds 2027

This competition does not pay cash - it lends you an instrument. The winner takes home a year's free loan of a violin, viola or cello from the Deutscher Musikinstrumentenfonds, Germany's dedicated fund of fine instruments for young players, with the loan period starting immediately and no stated option to extend beyond that first year. It is not open to beginners: you need to be between 12 and 28 and to have already won prizes at recognised competitions before you can enter this one. Applications go through the muvac platform from 1 August 2026, with a deadline of 30 October 2026; a preliminary jury watches your submitted video before deciding who is admitted to compete in person. The competition itself runs over three days in late February 2027 at the Musikhochschule Lübeck, where admitted candidates perform their programme live for a jury of volunteer faculty from the school. The announcement does not list a full set of required materials or confirm whether there is an entry fee beyond the video submission, and it does not spell out how the jury weighs performances - those details sit in a separate document that was not available to check directly, so if either matters to your planning, it is worth confirming with the organisers before you prepare your video.