Preliminaries of the 19th International Chopin Competition 2nd - 20th October 2025, Warsaw, Poland

 

The Selection Committee, headed by Professor Wojciech Świtała, has selected 171 artists from 28 countries from a record number of 642 applications, who will meet in Warsaw for the Preliminaries from 23 April to 4 May 2025. Their names were published on 4 March 2025 on the official website of the 19th Chopin Competition. The most numerous groups are representatives of: China (more than 60 qualified participants), South Korea, Japan, Poland, Canada and Italy. During the Preliminaries, we will also hear representatives from countries as distant as Brazil, Thailand, Malaysia, Uzbekistan.
 
The application stage for the Chopin Competition Qualifiers ran from 1 October 2024 to 12 January 2025.
642 applications were received from almost all over the world - from 54 countries.
The Preliminaries for the 19th Chopin Competition will be held in the Chamber Hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic. The Jury of the Preliminaries, consisting of: Wojciech Świtała (chairman), Ludmil Angelov, Nikolai Demidenko, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Kevin Kenner, Marc Laforêt, Alberto Nosè, Piotr Paleczny, Ewa Pobłocka and Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń, will select around 80 pianists to perform at the Chopin Competition in October.

List of pianists qualified for the Preliminaries of the 19th Chopin Competition

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The 19th Chopin Competition will officially begin on 2nd October 2025 with the opening concert. Auditions in October will last three weeks. On 20 October, a new winner will be announced, who, like each of his predecessors, will have the chance to make piano history. A day later, there will be an awards gala and the first of three concerts by the winners.
 
The winner will receive €60,000 and a gold medal, the entire prize pool amounts to more than €240,000. In addition, the winners of the musical tournament will be invited to a world tour lasting several months. Details of the concerts will be published after the Preliminaries.