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...

Fryderyk Chopin Birthday Concerts

Fryderyk Chopin Birthday Concerts On March 1st, at 7pm (10 am Pacific time), the Warsaw Philharmonic will resound with the music of Chopin’s chamber works, interpreted by three outstanding Polish musicians – Szymon Nehring (piano), Ryszard Groblewski (viola),...

New dates for the preliminary round of the 18th Chopin Competition

New dates for the preliminary round of the 18th Chopin CompetitionThe dates of the Preliminary Round of the 18th Chopin Competition have been changed. The more than 160 pianists who qualified for the Competition will be performing in Warsaw on 12-23 July 2021, at the...

Zlata Chochieva releases new CD

Zlata Chochieva releases new CD Zlata Chochieva’s new disc ‘(re)creations’ was released worldwide on 12 February 2021 by Accentus. In this recording, she performs piano transcriptions by three great pianists and composers, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Friedman, that lend...