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Ticket sales for the 19th Chopin Competition

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Auditions in October will last 3 weeks. On October 20th, 2025, the new winner of the Chopin Competition will be announced. A day later there will be an awards gala and the first of three concerts of the winners.

Competition schedule:
19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, October 2nd–23rd, 2025, Warsaw.
Concert Hall of the National Philharmonic

Inaugural concert: 2nd October 2025.

STAGE I: 3rd–7th October 2025 (morning session at 10 a.m. and afternoon session at 5 p.m.)
STAGE II: 9th–12th October 2025 (morning session at 10.00 a.m. and afternoon session at 5.00 p.m.)
STAGE III: 14th–16th October 2025 (morning session 10.00 a.m. and afternoon session 5.00 p.m.)
FINAL: 18th–20th October 2025 (evening session at 6 p.m.)

1st Prize-winners’ Concert: 21st October 2025
2nd Prize-winners’ Concert: 22nd October 2025
3rd Prize-winners’ Concert: 23rd October 2025

Schedule of ticket sales:
1st October 2024, 12:00 p.m. – auditions of the first, second, third stages, finals, second and third concert of laureates
September 2025 – Inaugural Concert and 1st prize-winners’ concert

Tickets for the 19th Chopin Competition will be available online at ebilet.pl.

The price list for tickets can be downloaded here.

Terms and conditions of ticket sales are available here.

The pass is valid for all competition auditions, except for the prize-winners’ concerts.

Limit of a single transaction in the system: 10 tickets and 2 passes.

Discounted tickets (-30%) are available to schoolchildren, students (up to 26 years of age), EU pensioners with a valid document entitling them to a discount.

During the competition auditions, children aged 8 and over are allowed in the concert hall. Persons disturbing the silence will be asked to leave the hall.

Paid admission to the competition auditions and laureate concerts for wheelchair users will be available by prior contact via email: bilety.konkurs@nifc.pl.

Approximately 10 minutes before each competition audition, paid tickets will be sold only if seating is available in the hall.

Tickets returned by 30th June 2025 will be paid for at 100% of the ticket price.

From 1st July 2025 it will not be possible to return tickets.

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