The distribution of prizes is as follows:

Jury-Prizes

First prize  EUR 10,000
EUR 7,000 cash prize and EUR 3,000 scholarship

Second Prize  EUR 7,000
EUR 4,000 cash prize and EUR 3,000 scholarship

Third Prize  EUR 6,000
EUR 3,000 cash prize and EUR 3,000 scholarship

Special Prize for the best interpretation of contemporary music  EUR 5,000
EUR 2,000 cash prize and EUR 3,000 scholarship

Audience Award  EUR 2.000

All prizes will be awarded for the competition as a whole rather than for each instrument.

Concert Invitations

The scholarship prizes are being provided by the Dr. Meyer-Struckmann- Stiftung.

a) The scholarship prizes are stipends to be used for concert performances. Concerts may be arranged in cooperation with the concert agency Jens Gunnar Becker in Herdecke.

b) The prize winners will receive invitations organised through the jury chairman Christoph-Matthias Müller to concerts with the Göttinger Symphonieorchester.

The overall winner shall be granted the title of
„First Prize Winner of the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments 2012“.

The second and third runners-up are entitled to the title „Prize Winner of the Aeolus International Competition for Wind Instruments 2012“.

All participants in the third round will be awarded a diploma.