For those unfamiliar, the Chopin Competition, held once every five years, is one of the most prestigious and demanding ...

Chopin, born in Warsaw, Poland, left his homeland at 20 and passed away in Paris at 39. Chopin learned of a citizen uprising ...

This October, renowned Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino will step on Poland’s Warsaw Philharmonic Hall stage in the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition. Japanese pianist Hayato Sumino performs ...

Steinway, Bechstein, Kawai, Yamaha or Fazioli – participants in the 19th Chopin Competition will have a choice of pianos from among these brands. This year’s winner will play one of them.

If the city of Warsaw were a person it would be Frederic Chopin. The 19th century piano virtuoso lived here for the first 20 formative and most productive years of his life and the city and its people ...

First-stage auditions continued on the third day of the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, with seventeen contestants performing their recitals consisting of an etude, a nocturne, ...

The Complete Nocturnes, Tom Hicks brings historic insights and artistic intuition to a cherished part of the piano repertoire ...

Rehearsal time is over. The world's best and most ambitious young pianists have descended on Warsaw for the Frederic Chopin ...