Ever since its inception in 1927, many of today’s legendary figures in music have first made their mark at Warsaw’s International Chopin Competition. Quite often, the most interesting artists can be found among the runners up of the competition.

Mitsuko Uchida, silver medalist of the 1970 competition, is now considered one of today’s greatest artists. Fou Ts’ong, who won the bronze medal as well as the Mazurka prize, also went on to become an artist respected by both audience members as well as his peers. Ingrid Fliter, silver medalist of the 2000 competition, enjoys a busy performing career, and is considered one of today’s most distinguished Chopin interpreters.

In previous years, we have presented both memorable and exciting performances by some of these laureates of the Chopin Competition, names such as Eric Lu, Kate Liu, Martin Garcia Garcia, Dina Yoffe, and Krzysztof Jablonski, the list goes on.

From the 19th International Chopin Competition, to be held in October of 2025, we will keep our ears open to find an artist of promise, to be presented in a solo recital debut under our auspices. Who will this special artist be? We promise that you will be the first to know!