19th Chopin Competition – Opening Concert Filharmonia Narodowa

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19th Chopin Competition – Opening Concert

2.10
Thursday / 20:00
Concert Hall
Guest Concert, Symphonic Concert, Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition
Performers:
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Andrzej Boreyko
conductor
Dang Thai Son
piano
Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu
piano
Yulianna Avdeeva
piano
Garrick Ohlsson
piano
Fryderyk Chopin
Polonaise in A Major, Op. 40 No. 1 (orch. Grzegorz Fitelberg) [4']
Camille Saint-Saëns
Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major 'Egyptian', Op. 103 [29']
Francis Poulenc
Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in D minor
Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for 4 harpsichords in A Minor, BWV 1065 (performed on 4 pianos)
19th Chopin Competition – Opening Concert

organiser: Fryderyk Chopin Institute

From 2 to 23 October 2025, the Warsaw Philharmonic will host one of the world's most important piano competitions – the International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, which in 2025 is held for the nineteenth time .

The three-stage competition auditions will begin on 3 October, and the day before, on 2 October, the official opening of the Competition will take place. The symphony concert will be conducted by Andrzej Boreyko, and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra will accompany the outstanding pianists, winners of previous editions of the Competition. Bruce Liu, Yulianna Avdeeva, Garrick Ohlsson and Dang Thai Son will perform together as soloists in Johann Sebastian Bach's Concerto for Four Harpsichords (performed on four pianos) by Johann Sebastian Bach. The programme will also include Francis Poulenc's Concerto for Two Pianos, Camille Saint-Saëns' Piano Concerto No. 5 and Fryderyk Chopin's Polonaise in A major, Op. 40 No. 1 (in a orchestral version).

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Andrzej Boreyko will accompany the Competition Finalists on 18, 19 and 20 October and during the prize-winners' concerts on 21, 22 and 23 October.


All information about the auditions – the schedule and auditions – can be found here: chopincompetition.pl

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Andrzej Boreyko

conductor

2023/2024 marks Andrzej Boreyko’s final season as Music and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. This season, they return to the International Krzysztof Penderecki Festival, Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival and Chopin and his Europe Festival and will tour across Japan and South Korea. Andrzej Boreyko also enters his season as Resident Conductor of Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, conducting their season-opening concert at the Teatro alla Scala which pairs Gustav Mahler’s Lied von der Erde with Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. He returns to open the Mahler Festival in Leipzig with Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, and will also conduct the passacaglia Mystery of Time by Czech composer Miloslav Kabelač.

In the spring of 2023, he made an outstanding return to the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducting Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5 alongside works by Victoria Poleva and Elena Langer. He received glowing reviews, including: ‘[Boreyko] gave a masterclass in how a conductor serves the interests of composers and their works, and how to leave the audience shouting for more… rapturous playing by the whole orchestra; elegant and insightful conducting’ (bachtrack.com).

Andrzej Boreyko is also a popular guest conductor of the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Prague Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus Symfoniorkester and Royal Scottish National Orchestra, as well as many others, including the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, Orchestre symphonique de Montreal, Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Orquesta Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg and Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (NOSPR).

In 2022, Andrzej Boreyko concluded his eighth and final season as Music Director of Artis—Naples. Previous appointments include Music Director positions of the Jenaer Philharmonie, Symphoniker Hamburg, Berner Sinfonieorchester, Dusseldorfer Symphoniker, Winnipeg Symphony and Belgian National Orchestra.

 

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