The International Flute Competition in Wiesbaden was created to honor the legacy of Ferdinand Wolfgang Neess, the music lover and the patron of Wiesbaden who has donate his Art Nouveau collection, the largest private Art Nouveau collection in Europe, to the state of Hessen. All flutists above the age of 18 are invited with no upper age limit. In the spirit of the founder Ferdinand W. Neess the participation of professional and non-professional flutists is explicitly encouraged.
The Flute competition takes place every 2 years.
The prize fund: EUR 5000 (1st place); EUR 3000 (2nd place), and EUR 2000 (3rd place).
TBA, 2028, Museum Wiesbaden, Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2, 65185 Wiesbaden, GERMANY
Official website: https://foundation-neess.de/flute-competition