ERIC GUO
Sunday, September 14, 2025 | 3 PM
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ERIC GUO
We begin our season with a concert by Canada’s Pianist Eric Guo, the winner of 1st prize at the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw 2023.
Born in Toronto, Eric Guo started piano at 4 years old. As recipient of David and Renette Berman Scholarships, he’s studying under Professor John Perry and Dean James Anagnoson.
The winning 1st prize at the Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in Warsaw 2023 (with Mazurkas Prize) led to performances at prestigious festivals: Dvorak Prague (Czech), Nohant Chopin (France), Duszniki Chopin (Poland), Chopin and his Europe (Warsaw), Bolzano Festival Bozen (Italy), Golden July Music Festival (Vienna), Frost Chopin (Miami), Rockport Music, Paderewski Festival (Raleigh), etc.
His competition CD was released by Chopin Institute during his recitals on Chopin’s 214th birthday in Żelazowa Wola and Warsaw Philharmonic, and broadcasted on CBC and Radio-Canada’s 175th anniversary of Chopin’s death.
He has appeared alongside numerous orchestras: Royal Philharmonic, {oh!} Orkiestra, Collegium 1704, Bach Collegium Japan, Ural Youth Symphony, Brescia Master Orchestra, Fort Worth, Minnesota, Toronto Symphony, Drummondville Orchestra, Mississauga Symphony. Named CBC’s 30 Hot Canadian Classical Musicians Under 30, and the Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Arts Grant in Piano.
All Chopin:
Etude in E flat minor, Op. 10, No. 6
Mazurkas Op.17
Polonaise in F-sharp minor, Op. 44
Prelude in A Major, Op. 28 No. 7
Ballade No. 4 in F minor
INTERMISSION
Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat minor, Op. 35
Prelude in E minor, Op. 28 No. 4
Prelude in D Major, Op. 28 No. 5
Prelude in B Major, Op. 28 No. 11
Prelude in B flat minor, Op. 28 No. 16
Prelude in E flat Major, Op. 28 No. 19
Prelude in D minor, Op. 28 No. 24
Guo demonstrated the extraordinary suppleness needed to make the composer’s rippling scale passages and elaborate ornamentation hypnotic. And while his velvet sound is filled with delicacy and contrast, he is capable of building, while never playing percussively, to thunderous conclusions. (The Boston Musical Intelligencer)
Guo in a sensitive performance accomplished a great deal musically and expressively with this labyrinthine adventurous structure, very close to the unique narrative dream-aesthetic of the fantasy created and cultivated by the composer. (Michael Moran)
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19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, 2-23 October 2025