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Change to the audition schedule for 15 October 2025

15/10/2025

Ladies and gentlemen, we would like to inform you that Eric Lu’s recital, originally scheduled for 15 October, has been rescheduled to the end of the third stage auditions due to the pianist’s illness and will take place on 16 October at 8:20 p.m.
Due to the above change, the schedule for the remaining participants in the morning session on 15 October is as follows:
Xiaoxuan Li – 10:00 a.m.
Tianyao Lyu – 12:00 noon

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10/2/2025

Laureates of international competitions in the 19th Chopin Competition

Of the 84 pianists who will be performing recitals in the first stage of the Chopin Competition starting on Friday, October 3, 66 were already introduced to the audience during the preliminary rounds (held in Warsaw in late April and early May). The remaining nineteen are coming to compete in the Chopin Competition thanks to prizes won in other piano competitions.

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10/9/2025

How did Chopin play – vol. 5

‘Chopin’s tempo rubato holds a mystery of interpretation that remains unfathomable to this day, despite numerous attempts to define and explain it,’ writes Professor Irena Poniatowska in the excellent anthology Wdzięk afektu. Teksty o tempo rubato [The Grace of Affect: Texts on Tempo Rubato].