In October of 2025, Warsaw will once again be piano capital of the world, as some of today’s finest young pianists congregate to take part in the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition. This year, a record 642 participants from all over the world applied. In the preliminaries, to take place in April of 2025, 80 pianists will be chosen to perform in Warsaw in October.

Ever since its inception in 1927, the International Chopin Competition has launched the careers of some of today’s legendary pianists – from artists like Lev Oborin, Bella Davidovich, Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, and Vladimir Ashkenazy, to recent winners such as Krystian Zimerman, Rafal Blechacz, Seong-Jin Cho, and Bruce Liu.

Once again, Vancouver will be the ONLY Canadian stop of this winner’s tour for this year’s gold medalist. Demand for tickets for this concert will be extremely high.

Our long-time subscribers well know that we have presented in recital many of the competition’s past winners and laureates.

Come and be witness to music history in the making.

2-23 October 2025 – COMPETITION IN WARSAW

• 2 October – Inaugural concert
• 3-7 October -I stage
• 9-12 October – II stage
• 14-16 October – III stage
• 18-20 October – Finals
• 21 October – First prize winner’s concert
• 22 October – Second prize winner’s concert
• 23 October – Third prize winner’s concert