Winter in Majorka

Winter in Majorka American filmmaker Jeff Buchanan is embarking on a feature film project detailing Chopin and George Sand’s famous holiday on the island of Majorca. This will be an adaptation of George Sand’s novel of the same title, a book that chronicles the three...

Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists

Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists The Fryderyk Chopin Society of Warsaw kindly invites interested persons to participate in The Sixth International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists. The Competition will be held in Warsaw, 9–14 September 2024....

Chopin Marathon 2024

The Vancouver Chopin Society’s (VCS) Youth Club Launch and Debut Event – A Chopin Piano Marathon! To celebrate the birthday of Frederic Chopin, which falls on March 1st, 2024 as well to raise money for the newly formed VCS Youth Club, The Vancouver Chopin Society, the...

18th Chopin Competition Update

18th Chopin Competition Update Here is the latest news from Joanna Bokszczanin, head of the Competition Office at the Chopin Institute in Warsaw. You will get answers for many questions surrounding the Competition. Please click here to get the...

Introduction by Richard Berkeley

Introduction by Richard Berkeley ONLINE CONCERT BY SILESIAN STRING QUARTET and WOJCIECH SWITAŁA – piano Thursday, April 15, 2021 | 7:30 PM In this introduction, Richard Berkeley will let us know who Juliusz Zarebski (1854-1885) was, and why we must take this...

World Premiere Chopin’s Piano Rediscovered

World Premiere: Chopin’s piano rediscovered March 1st, marked the 211th birthday of Fryderyk Chopin. Tomasz Ritter and Hubert Rutkowski performed Chopin’s timeless music on his recently rediscovered 1847 Pleyel grand piano (No. 13214). They are telling the...