Yehuda Prokopowicz Wins Polityka Readers’ Passport

Yehuda Prokopowicz, awarded the prestigious Polish Radio Prize for the best performance of mazurkas by the jury of the 19th Chopin Competition, won the Polityka Readers Passport plebiscite.

Eric Lu impresses during concerts in Asia

Eric Lu, winner of the 19th Chopin Competition, spent December on tour in Asia.

13 participants of the 19th Chopin Competition at concerts in the ‘Chopin Effect’ program

As many as thirteen Polish participants of the 19th Chopin Piano Competition performed in November and December as part of the ‘Chopin Effect’ program run by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

19th Chopin Competition Winner on record from the Fryderyk Chopin Institute

The Fryderyk Chopin Institute traditionally prepares a series of CD releases featuring portraits of the most outstanding participants in the Chopin Competition.

Chopin for the participants of the Warsaw Uprising

There is much evidence in Fryderyk Chopin's biography of his deep attachment to his homeland. Writing to his family from Vienna at the age of 21, he makes this clear declaration: ‘Malfatti [i.e. the imperial court physician Johann Malfatti, who introduced the young composer to the circles of the artistic elite of Vienna] attempts in vain to convince me that every artist is a cosmopolitan. Even if that were the case, as an artist I am still in the cradle, but as a Pole I have begun my third decade.’ 

Full schedule of the international tour of the laureates of the 19th Chopin Competition

Over 30 cities in fifteen countries on four continents – the international tour of the laureates of the 19th Chopin Competition, organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in cooperation with the Liu Kotow agency, is exceptionally grand and impressive in scope; young Chopinists are performing for tens of thousands of listeners.

New CD album’s in ‘Blue Series’

If we consider the beginning of Lidia Grychtołówna’s international career to be her seventh prize at the 5th Chopin Competition (1955), then current year we can celebrate the 70th anniversary of this distinguished doyenne of the Polish piano school.

19th Chopin Competition – judges' scores

We present the scores from the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw – the judges' scores in the order of the auditions and the results of each stage ranked according to the number of points.