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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Garrick Ohlsson

piano

Garrick Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of magisterial interpretive and technical prowess. Although long regarded as one of the world’s leading exponents of the music of Fryderyk Chopin, the artist commands an enormous repertoire ranging over the entire piano literature and has come to be noted for his masterly performances of the works of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert, as well as other Romantic-era composers.

The pianist has collaborated with the Cleveland, Emerson, Tokyo and Takacs string quartets, including most recently Boston Chamber Players on tour in Europe. Together with violinist Jorja Fleezanis and cellist Michael Grebanier, he is a founding member of the San Francisco-based FOG Trio. Garrick Ohlsson has appeared in recital with such legendary artists as Magda Olivero, Jessye Norman, and Ewa Podleś, and can be heard on the Arabesque, RCA Victor Red Seal, Angel, BMG, Delos, Hänssler, Nonesuch, Telarc, Hyperion and Virgin Classics labels.

Garrick Ohlsson began his piano studies at the age of 8 at the Westchester Conservatory of Music; at 13 he entered The Juilliard School in New York City. He has been awarded first prizes in the Busoni and Montreal Piano competitions, the Gold Medal at the International Chopin Competition in Warsaw (1970), the Avery Fisher Prize (1994), the University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award in Ann Arbor, MI (1998), the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance from the Northwestern Bienen School of Music (2014), and the Gloria Artis Medal for Merit to Culture from the Polish Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

 

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