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08/12/2026

The cultural machinery of mass media has waged a long and quiet war against European classical music. Films, TV programs, and advertising often cast classical musicians as sinister masterminds, psychopaths, or, at best, stiff relics of a bygone age.
In contrast, pop culture is presented as the realm of joy, vitality, and “relatable” goodness.

This is not harmless entertainment, but a calculated cultural operation meant to make European culture appear unglamorous, outdated, even threatening, while disguising mediocrity as virtue.

The message is simple: reject refinement, reject greatness, embrace the ordinary.
But a society that glorifies mediocrity will never rise above it.
A society that mocks greatness will never produce it.

Classical music, by contrast, is a living testament to the heights the human spirit can reach. To honour it is to resist decline; it is to remember that true joy and purpose do not come from ease or the ordinary, but from the pursuit of what elevates us.

Classical music reminds us that greatness is still possible, and still within us.

08/12/2026

📋🎹 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.

The list of judges' scores includes both the original scores and those corrected in accordance with paragraph XIII, point 7 of the Jury Regulations. As in previous years, the competition used one of the commonly applied methods of correcting individual scores to a specified maximum margin of deviation from the arithmetic mean of all jurors' scores, amounting to 3 points in the first stage and 2 points in subsequent stages. According to this method, if, for example, the average score awarded to a given participant in the second stage by all jurors is 18.5, and one of the jurors awarded 23 points, their score is adjusted to 20.5 (18.5 + 2). After the corrections have been made, a new average is calculated, and this becomes the result of the participant's assessment in that stage. The averages included in the summary are the averages after corrections.

In the summary of stage results, we present both the points awarded to participants in a given stage and in previous stages, as well as the cumulative final result calculated taking into account the weights for each stage. The method of taking into account scores from previous stages is also a common way of calculating votes in music competitions and has been used in the history of the Chopin Competition.

The jurors did not evaluate participants who are or have been their students within the last four years or who have a relationship with the juror that could hinder impartial evaluation. In such cases, the letter ‘s’ appears in the evaluation table.

The scores are available on the website:
https://www.chopincompetition.pl/en/newsroom/xix-chopin-competition-jury-scores?id=144&type=news

Detailed scoring rules can be found in the Competition Jury Rules.

📷 Wei-Ting Hsieh, I stage of the 19th Chopin Competition, photo by Wojciech Grzedzinski / NIFC.

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