XIX International Chopin Piano Competition

The Nineteenth International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Official poster
Date	23 April – 4 May 2025 (2025-04-23 – 2025-05-04) (preliminary round) 2–23 October 2025 (2025-10-02 – 2025-10-23) (main stage)
Venue	National Philharmonic, Warsaw
Hosted by	Fryderyk Chopin Institute
Website	chopincompetition.pl/en

The XIX International Chopin Piano Competition (Polish: XIX Międzynarodowy Konkurs Pianistyczny im. Fryderyka Chopina) will be held from 2 to 23 October 2025 in Warsaw.

Background

The Chopin Competition is Poland's most important musical event. The 2025 edition will coincide with the 100th anniversary of the competition. The celebrations will begin on 2 October 2025 and last five years.

The winning poster design for promoting the competition was selected by an international competition organized by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. Fifteen artists submitted a total of 30 entries. The jury, consisting of Błażej Ostoja Lniski, Prot Jarnuszkiewicz, Mieczysław Wasilewski and Artur Szklener, awarded the 40,000 złoty (US$10,000) prize to Marcin Władyka. All submitted poster designs will be exhibited October 1–31, 2025 at the Academy's Czapski Palace, which will also host accompanying events.

Pianists born in the years 1995–2009 are eligible to participate in the competition.

Awards

Prize		Winner
	€60,000		TBD
	€40,000		TBD
	€35,000		TBD
4th	€30,000		TBD
5th	€25,000		TBD
6th	€20,000		TBD
F	€8,000		TBD

Special prize		Founder	Winner
Best Performance of a Concerto	TBD	TBD
Best Performance of Mazurkas	TBD	TBD
Best Performance of a Polonaise	TBD	TBD
Best Performance of a Sonata	TBD	TBD
Best Performance of a Ballade	TBD	TBD

Preliminary stage

The preliminary stage was held from 23 April to 4 May 2025 in the Chamber Music Hall of the National Philharmonic in Warsaw. Participants were required to perform the following works:

Preliminary stage program
One of Étude Op. 10, No. 1 Étude Op. 10, No. 4 Étude Op. 10, No. 5 Étude Op. 10, No. 8 Étude Op. 10, No. 12 Étude Op. 25, No. 11	One of Étude Op. 10, No. 2 Étude Op. 10, No. 7 Étude Op. 10, No. 10 Étude Op. 10, No. 11 Étude Op. 25, No. 4 Étude Op. 25, No. 5 Étude Op. 25, No. 6 Étude Op. 25, No. 10	One of Nocturnes, Op. 9, No. 3 Nocturnes, Op. 27, No. 1 or 2 Nocturnes, Op. 37, No. 2 Nocturnes, Op. 48, No. 1 or 2 Nocturnes, Op. 55, No. 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62, No. 1 or 2 Étude Op. 10, No. 3 Étude Op. 10, No. 6 Étude Op. 25, No. 7	One of Scherzo No. 1, Op. 20 Scherzo No. 2, Op. 31 Scherzo No. 3, Op. 39 Scherzo No. 4, Op. 54	One of Mazurkas, Op. 24, No. 4 Mazurkas, Op. 30, No. 3 or 4 Mazurkas, Op. 33, No. 4 Mazurkas, Op. 41, No. 1 or 4 Mazurkas, Op. 50, No. 1 or 3 Mazurkas, Op. 56, No. 1 or 3 Mazurkas, Op. 59, No. 1 or 3

Ultimately, 162 contestants from 28 countries performed in the preliminary stage, of which the jury admitted 66 to the main stage. They were joined by an additional 19 pianists, who qualified to the main stage directly by winning major piano competitions.

Competitors of the preliminary round

Competitor	Country	Result
Masaharu Kambara	Japan
Masaya Kamei	Japan
Uladzislau Khandohi	Belarus
David Khrikuli	Georgia	To Stage I
Hayoung Kim	South Korea
Jeonghwan Kim	Germany
Jiin Kim	South Korea
Junhyung Kim	South Korea
Sunah Kim	South Korea
Sakurako Kita	Japan
Elizaveta Kliuchereva	Individual neutral pianist Germany
Antoni Kłeczek	United States Poland	To Stage I
Pavle Krstić	Bulgaria Serbia
Shushi Kyomasu	Japan	To Stage I
Ariya Laothitipong	Thailand
Gichang Lee	South Korea
Kwanwook Lee	South Korea	To Stage I
Bowen Li	China
Luwangzi Li	China	To Stage I
Tianyou Li	China	To Stage I
Xiaoxuan Li	China	To Stage I
Xinjie Li	China
Zhexiang Li	China	To Stage I
Juhee Lim	South Korea
Hao-Wei Lin	Taiwan	To Stage I
Yanan Liu	China
Ziyu Liu	China
Jiaqing Luo	China
Zheng Luo	China
Tianyao Lyu	China	To Stage I
Zhiqian Lyu	China
Julia Łozowska	Poland
Tiankun Ma	China	To Stage I
Megumi Maekawa	Japan United States
Anastasiya Magamedova	United States Tajikistan
Iskandarkhon Mamadaliev	Uzbekistan
Xuanyi Mao	China	To Stage I
Gregory Martin	United States
Ruben Micieli	Italy	To Stage I
Nathalia Milstein	France	To Stage I
Maria Moliszewska	Poland
Yumeka Nakagawa	Japan	To Stage I
Yulia Nakashima	Japan South Korea	To Stage I
Fanze Yang	China	To Stage I
Juan Mas Choclán	Spain
Yuya Nishimoto	Japan	To Stage I
Anna Ojiro	Japan
Vincent Ong	Malaysia	To Stage I
Arisa Onoda	Japan	To Stage I
Wenyuan Pan	China
Chaelin Park	South Korea
Jinhyung Park	South Korea
Yehuda Prokopowicz	Poland	To Stage I
Tommaso Boggian	Italy
Yangyue Qin	China
Hao Rao	China	To Stage I
Ingrid Rodrigues Uemura	Brazil
Zuzanna Sejbuk	Poland	To Stage I
Efe Sen	Turkey
Hanwen Shi	China
Kotaro Shigemori	Japan
Jun Shimada	Japan	To Stage I
Hyojin Shin	South Korea
Miyu Shindo	Japan	To Stage I
Mana Shoji	Japan	To Stage I
Vitaly Starikov	Israel	To Stage I
Gabriele Strata	Italy	To Stage I
Eva Strejcová	Czechia	To Stage I
Szu-Yu Su	Taiwan
Fansum Kenny Sun	China
Haolun Sun	China
Yutong Sun	China
Qianlin Tan	China
Nachuan Tao	China
Ziye Tao	China	To Stage I
Hao Tian	China
Shunshun Tie	China
Mateusz Tomica	Poland
Julian Trevelyan	United Kingdom
Vojtěch Trubač	Czechia
Eric Guo	Canada	To Stage I
Yubo Deng	China	To Stage I
Kiron Atom Tellian	Austria
Rikako Tsujimoto	Japan
Chun Lam U	China	To Stage I
Liya Wang	China
Quanlin Wang	China
Ryan Wang	Canada	To Stage I
Yuhang Wang	China
Zitong Wang	China	To Stage I
Jan Widlarz	Poland	To Stage I
Kwan Chai Wong	Individual neutral pianist
Sze Yuen Wong	China
Victoria Wong	United States Canada	To Stage I
Maiqi Wu	China	To Stage I
Yifan Wu	China	To Stage I
Zihao Wu	China
Lingfei (Stephan) Xie	China
Kongyan Xin	China
Miki Yamagata	Japan	To Stage I
Ryota Yamazaki	Japan	To Stage I
Viet Trung Nguyen	Vietnam Poland	To Stage I
Jiwon Yang	South Korea
Yuanfan Yang	United Kingdom	To Stage I
Jialin Yao	China
Adria Ye	United States
ZiRui Ye	China
Yoonji Yeo	South Korea
Sung Ho Yoo	South Korea
Jeong Hyun Yoon	South Korea
Bartłomiej Kokot	Poland
Yichen Yu	China	To Stage I
Yuewen Yu	China	To Stage I
Andrey Zenin	Individual neutral pianist	To Stage I
Jacky Xiaoyu Zhang	United Kingdom	To Stage I
Junzhe Zhang	China
Nathaniel Zhang	United States
Zhiqiao Zhang	China
Yuxuan Zhao	China
Yonghuan Zhong	China	To Stage I
Hanyuan Zhu	China	To Stage I
Shio Okui	Japan
Harmony Zhu	Canada
Jingting Zhu	China	To Stage I
Vladimir Aćimović	Serbia
Yuki Amako	Japan
Yanyan Bao	China	To Stage I
Michał Basista	Poland	To Stage I
Nicolas Bourdoncle	France
Simon Bürki	Switzerland
Michelle Candotti	Italy
Zhiqian Cen	China
Junho Cha	South Korea
Kai-Min Chang	Taiwan	To Stage I
Xuehong Chen	China	To Stage I
Hyo Lee	South Korea	To Stage I
Yanjun Chen	China
Yiyang Chen	China
Zixi Chen	China	To Stage I
Hoi Leong Cheong	China Portugal	To Stage I
Mariam Chitanava	Georgia
Hyena Cho	South Korea
Raphaël Collard	France
Diana Cooper	France United Kingdom	To Stage I
Athena Deng	Canada	To Stage I
Peida Du	China
YuAng Fan	China	To Stage I
Zhongjin Fang	China
Yang Gao	China
Yang (Jack) Gao	China	To Stage I
Inho Gi	South Korea
Shuguang Gong	China	To Stage I
Yiming Guo	China
Wei-Ting Hsieh	Taiwan	To Stage I
Xiaoyu Hu	China	To Stage I
Hasan Ignatov	Bulgaria	To Stage I
Ibrahim Ignatov	Bulgaria
Riko Imai	Japan
Hina Inazumi	Japan
Seika Ishida	Japan
Asaki Iwai	Japan
Hyun-Gyu Ji	South Korea
Zihan Jin	China	To Stage I

An additional 19 pianists qualified to the main stage directly by winning major piano competitions:

Competitors admitted directly into the main stage

Competitor	Country	Admission through
Piotr Alexewicz	Poland	2020 Polish Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition
Jonas Aumiller	Germany	2024 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
Kevin Chen	Canada	2023 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition
Mateusz Dubiel	Poland	2025 Polish Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition
Alberto Ferro	Italy	2015 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Adam Kałduński	Poland	2020 Polish Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition
Kaito Kobayashi	Japan	2021 Leeds International Piano Competition
Mateusz Krzyżowski	Poland	2022 International Paderewski Piano Competition
Shiori Kuwahara	Japan	2021 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition 2019 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Hyuk Lee	South Korea	2016 International Paderewski Piano Competition
Pedro López Salas	Spain	2022 International Paderewski Piano Competition
Eric Lu	United States	2018 Leeds International Piano Competition
Philipp Lynov	Individual neutral pianist	2019 International Paderewski Piano Competition
Piotr Pawlak	Poland	2020 Polish Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition
Anthony Ratinov	United States	2025 National Chopin Piano Competition of the USA 2023 Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition
Tomoharu Ushida	Japan	2018 Hamamatsu International Piano Competition
Andrzej Wierciński	Poland	2015 Polish Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition
Krzysztof Wierciński	Poland	2025 Polish Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition
William Yang	United States	2025 National Chopin Piano Competition of the USA

Main stage

The main competition from 3 to 20 October will consist of three stages and a final. An inaugural concert will be held on 2 October, and the prize-winners' concerts will take place from 21 to 23 October.

Program

Participants must select a different program for each stage of the competition. The competition repertoire must be played from memory and can be performed in any order. Contestants may not play the same piece twice in different stages of the competition, though they can perform pieces they performed in the preliminary round (except the first two etudes) in the main stage. Participants may use any available edition of Chopin's works, though the Chopin National Edition is recommended.

Competition program

Stage I program
One of Étude Op. 10, No. 1 Étude Op. 10, No. 2 Étude Op. 25, No. 6 Étude Op. 25, No. 10 Étude Op. 25, No. 11	One of Nocturnes, Op. 9, No. 3 Nocturnes, Op. 27, No. 1 or 2 Nocturnes, Op. 37, No. 2 Nocturnes, Op. 48, No. 1 or 2 Nocturnes, Op. 55, No. 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62, No. 1 or 2 Étude Op. 10, No. 3 Étude Op. 10, No. 6 Étude Op. 25, No. 7	One of Grande valse brillante, Op. 18 Waltzes, Op. 34, No. 1 Waltz, Op. 42	One of Ballade No. 1, Op. 23 Ballade No. 2, Op. 38 Ballade No. 3, Op. 47 Ballade No. 4, Op. 52 Barcarolle, Op. 60 Fantaisie, Op. 49
Stage II program
6 of the Preludes, Op. 28, either No. 7-12 or 13-18 or 19–24	One of Andante spianato et grande polonaise brillante, Op. 22 Polonaise, Op. 44 Polonaise, Op. 53 Polonaises, Op. 26 (both)	Any other pieces by Chopin to meet the required performing time of 40 to 50 minutes. Performing the full Op. 28 is allowed.
Stage III program
One sonata: Piano Sonata No. 2, Op. 35 Piano Sonata No. 3, Op. 58	One set of mazurkas: Mazurkas, Op. 17 Mazurkas, Op. 24 Mazurkas, Op. 30 Mazurkas, Op. 33 Mazurkas, Op. 41 Mazurkas, Op. 50 Mazurkas, Op. 56 Mazurkas, Op. 59	Any other pieces by Chopin to meet the required performing time of 45 to 55 minutes
Final program
Polonaise-Fantaisie, Op. 61		Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11 or Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 21

Jury

The jury will consist of:

Competition jury

• John Allison
• Yulianna Avdeeva ( XVI)
• Michel Beroff
• Akiko Ebi (5th X)
• Sa Chen (4th XIV)
• Đặng Thái Sơn ( X)
• Nelson Goerner
• Momo Kodama
• Krzysztof Jabłoński ( XI)
• Kevin Kenner ( XII)
• Robert McDonald
• Garrick Ohlsson (chairman; VIII)
• Piotr Paleczny ( VIII)
• Ewa Pobłocka (5th X)
• Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń (HM IX)
• John Rink
• Wojciech Świtała (XII)

External links

• Official website
• Chopin Institute's channel on YouTube