The First Prize Winner Fumiaki Miura will benefit from a wide range of awards, including a cash prize of €50,000, the organization of debut concerts and recitals with orchestras and ensembles of international standing, a Naxos CD production for worldwide distribution, a photo session, the design of an artist's website and a the use of violin by Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (Parma, ca. 1765), on loan for three years from the Fritz Behrens Foundation.
Fumiaki Miura also won the Music Critics' Prize as well as the Audience Prize valued at €5,000 each.
The Second Prize Winner Clara-Jumi Kang received a cash prize of €30,000. Yura Lee was awarded the Third Prize of €20,000.
The three unranked Laureates, Yusuke Hayashi, Hyuk Joo Kwun and Solenne Païdassi, were each awarded €8,000. They were also given the title of ›Laureate of the Hannover International Violin Competition 2009‹.
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In recognition of their outstanding achievements, all six Laureates have received a sculpture of a violinist specially created for the Stiftung Niedersachsen's 2009 Hannover International Violin Competition by the Lower Saxony artist Sebastian Peetz.
The Semifinalists David Coucheron (Norway), Yoo Jin Jang (South Korea), Stephanie Jeong (USA), Haik Kazazyan (Armenia/Russia), Jung Yoon Yang (South Korea) und Itamar Zorman (Israel) received a scholarship of €1,000 each.