10/14/2025
Congratulations to Kevin Chen, who is advancing to the third round of the International Chopin Piano Competition! Get the chance to hear Kevin play for us on the White Rock Concerts stage on February 28, 2026. Remember, single tickets are not sold and so be sure to buy a season subscription. We look forward to seeing you there!
🎹👥 List of participants qualified for the third stage of the 19th Chopin Competition
The results of the second stage of the Competition are in! The jury, chaired by Garrick Ohlsson, has decided that the following pianists have qualified for the third stage:
1. Piotr Alexewicz (Poland)
2. Kevin Chen (Canada)
3. Yang (Jack) Gao (China)
4. Eric Guo (Canada)
5. David Khrikuli (Georgia)
6. Shiori Kuwahara (Japan)
7. Hyo Lee (South Korea)
8. Hyuk Lee (South Korea)
9. Tianyou Li (China)
10. Xiaoxuan Li (China)
11. Eric Lu (USA)
12. Tianyao Lyu (China)
13. Vincent Ong (Malaysia)
14. Piotr Pawlak (Poland)
15. Yehuda Prokopowicz (Poland)
16. Miyu Shindo (Japan)
17. Tomoharu Ushida (Japan)
18. Zitong Wang (China)
19. Yifan Wu (China)
20. William Yang (USA)
✨ We congratulate the twenty semi-finalists and thank all participants for the moving performances they shared with us in the second stage.
📅 The auditions for the third stage of the 19th Chopin Competition will take place on 14-16 October 2025, every day in morning and evening sessions:
🔹 morning session starts at 10 a.m. CEST, with an intermission between 12 p.m. and 12.30 p.m.,
🔹 evening session starts at 5 p.m. CEST, with an intermission between 7 p.m. and 7.30 p.m.
📅 The schedule of performances in the third stage, together with the programmes, will be published on the Competition website on Monday:
https://www.chopincompetition.pl/pl/calendar?stage=2438&day=21
😌 13 October is a break day from auditions – we encourage you to take part in accompanying events:
On Monday at 1 p.m., we invite you to Krakowskie Przedmieście 5 in Warsaw for the opening of the Outdoor Exhibition: Poster Competition for the 19th Chopin Competition.
On that day, the museum in Żelazowa Wola will also be open, where you can visit Fryderyk Chopin’s Birthplace and the modernist park dedicated to the composer, as well as the temporary exhibition ‘A Theatre Well Buttoned Up: Stage puppets from Nohant’.
We would like to remind you that Wojciech Grzędziński’s exhibition of photographs from the four previous Chopin Competitions will be on display at Hala Koszyki until 22 October.
🎥 On Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. CEST, we will return with broadcasts from the Competition! You can listen to and watch all auditions 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 and Polskie Chopin;
🔹 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
🎟 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.
PRICES (per one audition session/concert):
3rd stage: PLN 70
Final round: PLN 90
1st Prize-winners’ Concert: PLN 100
2nd Prize-winners’ Concert: PLN 70
3rd Prize-winners’ Concert: PLN 70
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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, - 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
