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Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition

London, United Kingdom

Next edition

No future edition is announced on the official pages we could check.

Overview

A triennial string quartet competition held at Wigmore Hall and the Royal Academy of Music in London. The 2025 (16th) edition ran 1-6 April with a preliminary round, semi-finals and a final.

Organiser: Wigmore Hall
Instruments: String quartet
Category: String quartet

Rules & repertoire

Registration & fee

Not published on the official pages we could check.

Rounds & time limits

Preliminary Round (Royal Academy of Music)
Semi-Finals (Wigmore Hall)
Final (Wigmore Hall)

Repertoire

Not published on the official pages we could check.

Jury & prizes

Jury

John Gilhooly CBE (Chairman)
Peter Jarusek
Nina Lee
Heime Muller
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt
Lesley Robertson
Mark Steinberg

Prizes

First Prize (Alan Bradley Memorial Prize): GBP 10,000
Second Prize: GBP 6,000
Third Prize: GBP 3,000
Bram Eldering 19th Century Prize: GBP 1,400
Sidney Griller Award: GBP 1,000
Haydn Prize: GBP 1,000
Mozart Prize: GBP 1,000
City of Portsmouth Prize: GBP 1,000
Professional development prizes incl. Britten Pears, Esterhazy Foundation, Leeds International Concert Season, ProQuartet, Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland

Past editions

2025 — London (Royal Academy of Music, Wigmore Hall) source
First Prize: Opus13; Second Prize: Terra String Quartet; Third Prize: Quartet Integra
2022 — London source
First Prize: Leonkoro Quartet

Summarised from official sources, last checked 10 Nov 2026. Main source