2n Prize at International Improvisation Contest in Strägnäs/Mariefred (Sweden) September 1991 (Jury: Bernard Bartelink, Anders Bondeman, Hans Haselböck)
3rd Preis (split, 1st prize not awarded) in September 1992 at 10th Paul Hofhaimer Competition of the City of Innsbruck (Early organ music and improvisation). (Jury: Luigi-Ferdinando Tagliavini, Jean-Claude Zehnder, Gustav Leonhardt, Herbert Tachezi, Michael Radulescu).
1st Prize at 3rd Competition "Organ Improvisation within the Liturgy", arranged by the Directors of Church Music Institutes Conference, Speyer im Mai 1993. (Jury: Matthias Kreuels, Egidius Doll, Bernard Bartelink, Wolfgang Bretschneider, Andreas Rothkopf).
2nd Prize (doubled, 1st not awarded) at International Improvisation Conpetition "Europäische Kirchenmusik Schwäbisch Gmünd", June 1993. (Jury: Albert de Klerk, Jaques Taddei, Hubert Beck).
1st Prize at International Organ Improvisation Competition at Knokke-Heist (Belgium) im August 1993. (Jury: Piet Kee, Wilhelm Precker, Peter Planyavsky, Nigel Allcoat, Kamiel d'Hooge).
1st Prize at the 41st International ORgan Improvisation Competition of Haarlem (The Netherlands) July 1996. (Jury: Bernard Bartelink, Loic Mallié, Wolfgang Hörlin, Lionel Rogg, Guus Janssen).
1st Prize at International Organ Improvisation Competition "Grand Prix Maurice Duruflé" of Hamburg in October 1996. (Jury: Peter Planyavsky, Patrick Delabre, Katrine Bryndorf, Uwe Röhl, Roland M. Stangier, Eberhard Lauer).
1st Prize at International Organ Improvisation Competition “Wandlung der Formen/Change of Forms” July 1998 at Regensburg. (Jury: Bertold Hummel, Franz Josef Stoiber, Rupert G. Frieberger, Genoveva Nitz, Helga von Loewenich).
3rd Prize at International Organ Improvisation Competition “Anton Heiller”, November 1998, Vienna. Jury: Guy Bovet, Michael Radulescu, Peter Planyavsky.)
2nd Prize (1st not awarded) at Composition Contest “Neue Musik für die Kirche” Hannover 1999 for “Begegnung mit Psalm 35”
Culture Award of Carinthia State in 2002 in"music" category
Karl-Bernhardin Kropf served as jury member at the competitions Wettbewerb “Orgelimprovisation im Gottesdienst” Limburg 2003, at the Young Musicians Competition of Ljubljana, Slovenia 2006, and the Improvisation Competition of Haarlem/NL 2006