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SUMMARY:International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition 2025
DESCRIPTION:The 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition will take place in Warsaw in October 2025. We encourage you to explore the Regulations of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. \nThe application form will be available from 2 September to 15 December 2024. The preliminary round of the Competition will be held in Warsaw at the end of April / beginning of May 2025. \nPianists born between 1995 – 2009 can participate in the Competition. \n  \nThe Chopin Competition is the most important musical event in Poland and one of the most important musical events in the world. Apart from its huge role in popularising Chopin’s music\, it discovers the greatest pianistic talents\, providing young musicians with the most effective start in their international career. It is a source of multicultural polarisation\, which the world observes in various interpretations of the music of the brilliant composer. \nThe first Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw took place in 1927 and was founded on the initiative of Professor Jerzy Żurawlew\, a Polish pianist and educator\, with the financial backing of his friend Henryk Rewkiewicz – a businessman\, music lover\, and board member of The Warsaw Music Society. The Competition was organised by the said Warsaw Music Society\, with the President of the Republic of Poland\, Ignacy Mościcki\, as the patron. The Competition was held at the Warsaw Philharmonic. It was attended by 26 pianists from eight countriesThe winner was the phenomenal Soviet Lev Oborin\, the future permanent artistic partner of the legendary violinist David Oistrakh. Second prize was awarded to one of the most outstanding Polish pianists Stanisław Szpinalski. Among the distinguished ones was Dmitri Shostakovich\, who was the first pianist to have all Chopin’s works with orchestra in his repertoire. The competition was to be organized every five years. There were two more editions before World War II: in 1932 the winner was Aleksander Uninsky and in 1937 Jakov Zak (third prize went to Witold Małcużyński). The first competition after the war took place in 1949\, and its triumphant winners were ex aequo two great female pianists: Halina Czerny-Stefańska and Bella Davidovich. Then\, exceptionally\, due to the reconstruction of the National Philharmonic\, there was a six-year break\, and in 1955 three great pianists triumphed: Adam Harasiewicz\, Vladimir Ashkenazy and Fou Ts’ong\, who also received the award for best performance of the mazurkas. The names of the subsequent winners\, like their predecessors\, belong to the pantheon of world pianism: Maurizio Pollini\, Martha Argerich\, Garrick Ohlsson\, Krystian Zimerman\, Stanislav Bunin\, Dang Thai Son\, Kevin Kenner\, Philippe Giusiano\, Yundi Li\, Rafał Blechacz\, Yulianna Avdeeva and the winner of the last Competition – Seong-Jin Cho. The competition has also opened the way to an international career for many other prize winners (Mitsuko Uchida\, Ingrid Fliter\, Gabriela Montero\, Ingolf Wunder\, Daniil Trifonov)\, as well as pianists who only received special prizes; it is worth mentioning such personalities as Ivo Pogorelic\, Nelson Goerner\, Angela Hewitt\, Christian Zacharias\, Emanuel Ax\, and others. Among the pianists whose talent was discovered at the Competition there are many internationally recognized Polish pianists\, such as Władysław Kędra\, Ryszard Bakst\, Regina Smendzianka\, Barbara Hesse-Bukowska\, Jerzy Godziszewski\, Marta Sosińska\, Janusz Olejniczak\, Wojciech Świtała\, Ewa Pobłocka\, Krzysztof Jabłoński\, Szymon Nehring… \nThe fame and prestige of the Chopin Competition are undoubtedly created by its Jurors (including honorary jurors)\, special guests and members of honorary committees – they have included the most distinguished representatives of world culture of the 20th and 21st century\, among others: Witold Maliszewski\, Aleksander Michałowski\, Henryk Melcer\, Karol Szymanowski\, Marguerite Long\, Maurice Ravel\, Witold Lutosławski\, Bruno Seidlhofer\, Nadia Boulanger\, Wilhelm Backhaus\, Artur Rubinstein\, Carlo Zecchi\, Arturo Benedetti-Michelangeli\, Stefan Askenase\, Dmitri Kabalevsky\, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz\, Paul Badura-Skoda\, Nikita Magaloff\, Mieczysław Horszowski\, Kazimierz Kord\, Nelson Freire\, Mirosław Bałka\, Norman Davies\, Krzysztof Penderecki\, JIri Kylian\, Andrzej Wajda and Tomas Venclova. \nThe Chopin Competition confirms the timelessness of the music of the brilliant Polish composer\, from the very beginning it is far more than just a music tournament of the highest level. Attracting a growing number of pianistic talents from all over the world (452 entries in 2015\, more than 500 in 2020!)\, it draws the attention of not only the international music community and music lovers\, but also those who have little contact with classical music on a daily basis. In Poland it is a kind of national holiday\, a headline event; on a global scale it is one of the most important music events. The 21st century is changing our way of life\, perception of reality\, expectations and interpersonal relations at a dizzying pace. Undoubtedly\, it is a great challenge for any offer of so-called high culture\, while at the same time giving more and more opportunities to participate in it – also to individuals and whole social groups who have been deprived of it so far. The competition uses the latest technologies in a thoughtful way\, which will result\, among others\, in the first ever VR transmissions. The whole event is broadcasted on the radio and TV\, it can be watched in streaming technology\, followed in social media and by means of a dedicated application. Impressive statistics of the broadly understood turnout from previous editions show that interest in the Competition is constantly growing. \nThe Chopin Competition is the most important musical event in Poland and one of the most important musical events in the world. In addition to its enormous role in popularising Chopin’s music for over 90 years\, it discovers the greatest pianistic talents\, providing young musicians with the most effective start in their international career. It is a source of multicultural polarization which the world observes in various interpretations of the music of the brilliant composer.
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SUMMARY:International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments 2023
DESCRIPTION:The 2nd International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments\, organised by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute\, will be held in Warsaw on 5–15 October 2023. \n  \n  \nOne of the lodestars the Chopin Institute has followed from its earliest days and a fundamental component of its programme is the endeavour to bring back the authentic sound of the music our composing genius created. \nThe meticulously drawn and persistently implemented plan of activity in this scope encompasses the annually organised Chopin and His Europe International Festival. Developed from the proprietary concept of Stanisław Leszczyński in 2005\, it opened a new chapter in interpreting Chopin’s music. \nFrom the purchase of the first instrument from the time of Chopin\, an Erard from 1849\, the Institute has developed its collection of period pianos and their replicas\, and made them available to eminent pianists\, at the same time inviting the best orchestras specialising in historically informed performance to Warsaw. \nThe release of successive CDs in “The Real Chopin” series\, the world’s first to include the complete works of the Polish composing genius in their original sound\, has also been a great success in the recent years. \nPerformances using means similar to those the composer had at his disposal makes contemporary audiences aware of the specific nature of Chopin’s music\, and particularly of its distinctive features that are lost if performed on contemporary instruments.\nAnother extremely important step aimed at spreading the idea of performing Chopin’s music on instruments from his time is the organisation of the exceptional Chopin Competition on Period Instruments. \nThe competition was first held in September 2018 in the Warsaw Philharmonic\, and became a crucial element of the Chopin Institute’s celebrations of Poland’s 100th anniversary of regaining independence. The winner of the competition\, which attracted nearly 60 pianists from 19 countries\, was Tomasz Ritter\, a Pole. \nThe Competition will be held for the second time from 5 to 15 October 2023\, again in the Warsaw Philharmonic. \nIt has been slated for three stages: the first and the second are solo recitals with repertoires composed of\, beside Chopin\, selected pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach\, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart\, and polonaises by Polish composers active in the first half of the 19th century. In the third stage\, the six finalists will perform their choice of Chopin’s works with an orchestra. They will be accompanied by Martyna Pastuszka’s {oh!} Orkiestra Historyczna. \nThe pianists will be assessed by an international jury composed of eminent musicians specialising in historically informed performance\, notably Andreas Staier\, Paolo Giacometti and Tobias Koch\, and eminent Chopin experts. \nThe competing pianists will have at their disposal historical instruments from the Chopin Institute’s collection – Erards from 1838\, 1849\, and 1855\, Pleyels from 1848 and 1854\, and a Broadwood from 1843\, and\, besides those\, also replicas of period instruments and instruments kindly loaned from European collections.
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