Preliminaries for the 19th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition begin tomorrow!

Auditions will take place from 23 April to 4 May at the Chamber Music Hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic, daily in two sessions: a morning session from 10:00 a.m. and an afternoon session from 5:00 p.m. 

The performance schedule and recital programs can be found on the 19th Chopin Competition website: chopincompetition.pl/en/calendar. 

Last audition tickets are still available at tickets.nifc.pl. Prior to each session, tickets priced at PLN 20 will also be available for purchase at the box office of the Warsaw Philharmonic.   

The preliminaries for the 19th Chopin Competition will be available to watch live on the Competition's website, Facebook and the Chopin Institute's official YouTube channel, and to listen to on the Chopin Polish Radio. 

More than 160 performers will present themselves during the 12 days of auditions. During the approximately 30-minute recitals, they will perform selected works by Fryderyk Chopin. The Jury of the Preliminaries, consisting of: Piotr Paleczny (chairman), Ludmil Angelov, Nikolai Demidenko, Krzysztof Jablonski, Kevin Kenner, Marc Laforêt, Alberto Nosè, Ewa Poblocka, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and Wojciech Świtała, will select about 80 pianists to perform at the Chopin Competition in October.