08/10/2025
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📣 The results of the first stage are in! The Competition Jury has decided that 40 pianists will advance to the second stage of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition:
1. Piotr Alexewicz (Poland)
2. Jonas Aumiller (Germany)
3. Yanyan Bao (China)
4. Kai-Min Chang (Chinese Taipei)
5. Kevin Chen (Canada)
6. Xuehong Chen (China)
7. Zixi Chen (China)
8. Yubo Deng (China)
9. Yang (Jack) Gao (China)
10. Eric Guo (Canada)
11. Xiaoyu Hu (China)
12. Zihan Jin (China)
13. Adam Kałduński (Poland)
14. David Khrikuli (Georgia)
15. Shiori Kuwahara (Japan)
16. Hyo Lee (South Korea)
17. Hyuk Lee South (Korea)
18. Kwanwook Lee (South Korea)
19. Xiaoxuan Li (China)
20. Zhexiang Li (China)
21. Tianyou Li (China)
22. Eric Lu (USA)
23. Philipp Lynov (individual neutral pianist)
24. Tianyao Lyu (China)
25. Ruben Micieli (Italy)
26. Nathalia Milstein (France)
27. Yumeka Nakagawa (Japan)
28. Vincent Ong (Malaysia)
29. Piotr Pawlak (Poland)
30. Yehuda Prokopowicz (Poland)
31. Hao Rao (China)
32. Anthony Ratinov (USA)
33. Miyu Shindo (Japan)
34. Gabriele Strata (Italy)
35. Tomoharu Ushida (Japan)
36. Zitong Wang (China)
37. Yifan Wu (China)
38. Miki Yamagata (Japan)
39. William Yang (USA)
40. Jacky Zhang (Great Britain)
We congratulate and thank all participants for their excellent performances in the first stage ✨.
📅 The schedule for the second stage auditions will be published soon on the Competition website: https://www.chopincompetition.pl/pl/calendar?stage=2437&day=18
🧘 8 October is a day off from auditions. We invite you to take part in accompanying events! You can see the exhibition ‘Romantic Life. Chopin, Scheffer, Delacroix, Sand’ at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum and ‘A Theatre Well-Buttoned Up’ at the Birthplace of Fryderyk Chopin in Żelazowa Wola, and visit the exhibition of photographs by Wojciech Grzędziński from the four previous Chopin Competitions, which will be open until 22 October.
📅 The auditions for the second stage of the 19th Chopin Competition will take place on 9-12 October 2025, every day in the morning and evening sessions:
🎶Morning session: starting at 10:00 a.m. CEST, intermission: 12:00-12:30 p.m.
🎶Evening session: starting at 5:00 p.m. CEST, intermission: 7:00-7:30 p.m.
You can watch and listen to the competition auditions live in 4K quality via:
🔹 the website of the 19th Chopin Competition: https://chopincompetition.pl;
🔹 the Chopin Institute YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/
🔹 the Chinese social media platform Weibo;
🔹 TV broadcast on TVP Kultura, Internet broadcast on TVP Kultura 2;
🔹 radio broadcast on Polish Radio Channel 2;
🔹 Chopin Institute’s social media (including TikTok and Facebook).
🎶 Follow us on Instagram to see the behind-the-scenes, photos, interviews, and more! https://www.instagram.com/chopininstitute
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🎟 Tickets for the 19th Chopin Competition are sold out, but it will be possible to purchase one-entry passes (last-minute standing tickets). They will be sold at the Warsaw Philharmonic box office 10 minutes before the start of the auditions if there are still seats available in the auditorium.
These admission tickets are unnumbered. To take their seats, ticket holders must wait until the last, third gong. It is possible to enter or leave the hall during the session, but only between performances by successive pianists, never during them.
Children who are at least 8 years of age can sit in the audience of the 19th Chopin Competition.
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👉 Official website of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition: chopincompetition.pl
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Honorary Patronage of Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland
Co-financed by Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego
Patron: ORLEN
Strategic Partner: PKO Bank Polski
Main Partner: Totalizator Sportowy
Golden Partner: PZU
Co-organiser: Miasto Stołeczne Warszawa, Telewizja Polska, Dwójka - Program 2 Polskiego Radia, Uniwersytet Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina
Partners: Lexus, Lotnisko Chopina, Emitel, Yamaha Pianos, Cloudware, Robert Dobrzycki Foundation, Filharmonia Narodowa w Warszawie, ebilet.pl, Instytut Adama Mickiewicza, ORSKA
Official carrier: LOT Polish Airlines
Media Patrons: TVP Kultura, Polskie Radio, Polskie Radio Chopin, Polska Agencja Prasowa, ELLE Polska, Rzeczpospolita
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