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Results of the Audience Award poll of the 19th Chopin Competition

21/10/2025

We are pleased to announce the results of the Audience Award poll for the 19th Chopin Piano Competition. You voted from among 11 finalists between October 18th and 20th.

The winner – with 19,961 votes – is Piotr Alexewicz, a 25-year-old from Wrocław, ranked fifth by the Competition jury. He developed his skills under the guidance of Paweł Zawadzki, Konstantin Scherbakov, and Nikolai Demidenko, among others. Second place went to Malaysian Vincent Ong (11,547 votes), and third place was taken by Chinese pianist Tianyao Lyu, who received 8,224 votes.

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    4/23/2025

    The Preliminaries to the 19th Chopin Competition have begun!

    Today, at 10 a.m., in the Chamber Music Hall of the Warsaw Philharmonic, a pianist from Japan began the Preliminaries for the 19th Chopin Competition with his recital. Until May 4, we will hear more than 160 pianists performing approximately 30-minute recitals, the program of which will include the etudes, nocturnes, scherzos and mazurkas of Fryderyk Chopin listed in the Rules of the event. 

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    11/17/2025

    Eric Lu’ concerts in South Korea

    Eric Lu splits the European and Asian legs of his international tour with two weekend recitals – on November 15 and 16 – in the United States: in Cupertino, California, for the Steinway Society, and in Portland, Oregon, for Portland Piano International.

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