A cash prize pool of $236,500 is on offer for The Sydney 2023.
Prize | Value | |
Ernest Hutcheson First Prize | $50,000 | |
Percy Grainger Second Prize | $25,000 | DONATE this Prize |
George Frederick Boyle Third Prize | $20,000 | DONATE $1,000 towards this prize |
William Murdoch Fourth Prize | $15,000 | DONATE this Prize |
Arthur Benjamin Fifth Prize | $10,000 | |
Noel Mewtown-Wood Sixth Prize | $7,500 | DONATE this Prize |
Eileen Joyce Best Overall Concerto | $5,000 | |
Roy Agnew Best 18th Century Concerto | $5,000 | |
Miriam Hyde Best 19th/20th Century Concerto | $3,000 | |
Hephzibah Menuhin Best Sonata with Violin and Piano | $3,000 | |
Geoffrey Parsons Best Sonata with Cello and Piano | $3,000 | |
Una Bourne Best Accompanist Prize | $3,000 | DONATE this Prize |
Roger Smalley Best Preliminaries Round 1 Recital | $3,000 | DONATE this Prize |
Isador Goodman Best Preliminaries Round 2 Recital | $3,000 | |
Ignaz Friedman Best Semi Finals Recital | $3,000 | |
Geoffrey Tozer Most Promising Pianist not Proceeding to the Finals | $5,000 | |
Nancy Weir Best Australian Pianist | $20,000 | |
Malcolm Williamson Best Performance of an Australian Piece | $5,000 | |
Rex Hobcroft People’s Choice | $10,000 | DONATE this Prize |
Rhondda Gillespie Best Performance of a work from any period before 1950 by a rarely-played and unduly neglected composer | $5,000 | |
Best Program Presentation in Semi Final | $3,000 | DONATE this Prize |
Best Encore in the Preliminary or Semi Finals | $3,000 | |
Prizes for each of the six Semi Finalists not proceeding to the Finals; $1,000 each | $6,000 | |
Medal Given to the Most Promising Competitor Plus $1,000 | $1,000 |