Full schedule of the international tour of the laureates of the 19th Chopin Competition

Over 30 cities in fifteen countries on four continents – the international tour of the laureates of the 19th Chopin Competition, organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in cooperation with the Liu Kotow agency, is exceptionally grand and impressive in scope; young Chopinists are performing for tens of thousands of listeners.

The winner, Eric Lu, has been performing with extraordinary intensity. Since the last week of October of this year, he has already given more than a dozen recitals and performed several times with distinguished symphony orchestras, including the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Poznań Philharmonic, and the Korean KBS Symphony Orchestra. The artist has appeared in prestigious venues – such as the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the Berlin Philharmonic, LaSapienza University in Rome, Cankarjev Dom in Slovenia, the Shanghai Symphony Hall – and in the coming days, weeks, and months, audiences will be able to listen to his performances at venues including the Victoria Concert Hall in Singapore, the National Concert Hall in Taipei, the University of Hong Kong, the NHK Orchestra in Tokyo, the Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, the Tokyo Opera City Tower, the Essen Philharmonic, the Rudolfinum in Prague, the Sofia Philharmonic, and the Liederhalle in Stuttgart. With symphonic ensembles, Lu presents Chopin’s Concerto in F minor, while his recital program is based on works selected from his performances in all stages of the Competition, including the Polonaise-Fantasie from the final, and the Barcarolle and Sonata in B minor, with which he captivated the Warsaw audience and the jury in the third stage. 

In addition to the Competition’s gold medallist, the second and third place winners, Kevin Chen and Zitong Wang, perform at the crowd-pleasing concerts. Their joint concert, along with Lu, took place at the Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Hall as part of the prestigious Meister-Klavierabend [Evenings of Piano Masters] series. ‘Purely pianistically, all three are the epitome of strong, flawless winners,’ wrote Eleonore Büning after the gala. Chen and Wang – joined by 5th Prize winner Vincent Ong – also performed together at the Prinzregentheater in Munich.

Both Zitong Wang and Kevin Chen have already performed several times in Poland, with orchestras from the National Forum of Music in Wrocław, the Baltic Philharmonic in Gdańsk, the Szczecin Philharmonic, and the Polish Radio Chamber Orchestra ‘Amadeus’. The other Competition’s laureates, Piotr Alexewicz, Vincent Ong, Tianyao Lyu, Shiori Kuwahara, and William Yang, also have full schedules. Besides Polish cities like Kraków, Poznań, Katowice, and Gdańsk, they are giving recitals in Ulsan, Seoul, Taipei, Cordoba, and Tallinn, among others. 

Here is the full concert schedule for the tour.