Once again, a prestigious international jury will decide who will receive the valuable special prizes and who wins the Bartók World Competition in 2023.

The members of the jury presiding over the live rounds of the competition are: German violinist Stephan Picard, professor at the Hanns Eisler School of Music Berlin; American violinist Daniel Phillips, professor at The Juilliard School in New York; Ukrainian–British violist-conductor Maxim Rysanov, who lives in Hungary; French violinist Roland Daugareil, professor at the Conservatoire de Paris and concertmaster of the Orchestre de Paris until 2021; as well as Japanese violinist Yayoi Toda. The Hungarian members of the panel are: Kossuth Prize-winning violinist Kristóf Baráti, head of the Strings Department at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music; Gyula Fekete, Erkel and Bartók–Pásztory Prize-winning composer, head of the Composition Department and Vice-President of the university; conductor Péter Halász, music director at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf; as well as András Keller, Kossuth Prize-winning violinist-conductor, music director of Concerto Budapest.