As the opening event of the eleventh edition of the Telekom Beethoven Competition, the prizewinners' soirée will take place on June 14, 2025 at 7:30 pm in the Chamber Music Hall of the Beethoven-Haus. In addition to the music, the field of participants for the competition in December will also be announced for the first time at the concert.

At the prizewinners' soirée of the renowned Bonn Piano Competition on June 14, 2025, Lovre Marušić, the runner-up of the 2023 Competition, and Zhouhui Shen, the third-place winner of the 2023 Competition, will once again perform in the Beethoven city of Bonn. They will present a top-class program with works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Jean Sibelius, Frédéric Chopin and Henri Dutilleux.