Official prizes

1^st prize: CHF 25'000.-

2^nd prize: CHF 15'000.-

3^rd prize: CHF 10'000.-

Finalist prizes: CHF 1'500.-

Special Prizes

Final

- Audience Award: CHF 2’000.-
- HEMU Prize - Best HEMU student : CHF 5'000.- and a concert at the Noda BCVS hall (Sion)

Semi-final

- Young Audience Prize (awarded by three pre-HEM pupils from the Conservatoire de Lausanne): CHF 1'500.-
- Prize for Best Contemporary Interpretation (piece written after 1950): CHF 1'000.-

Overall competition

- Best Swiss Candidate Prize: CHF 1'000.-

Prize giving

The laureates will be announced and the prizes awarded at the end of the final, which will take place on 16 October 2026 at the Opéra de Lausanne.