Schedule

22 December 2024

Deadline for sending the applications to the Competition

26 January 2025

Publication of a list of candidates who entered the competition

27th March 2025

Arrival of participants. Organization and planning.

28 March 2025 // Auditorio Stelio Molo // 6 PM

Inauguration concert given by piano legend Martha Argerich, jury president of the Jeune Chopin Competition, Martín García García, Cédric Pescia and Magdalena Hirsz at Auditorio Stelio Molo.

The concert will feature a recital given on the original, historic 1848 Pleyel piano.

Opening concert programme will be announced soon:

Auditions programme will be published after the 22nd of January 2025.

All the auditions will be held at the Auditorio Stelio Molo

30 March 2025 // Auditorio Stelio Molo // 6 PM

Concert & Closing Gala of the IIIrd International Piano Competition Jeune Chopin // AWARDS

The jury of the international piano competition, Jeune Chopin, led by the virtuoso piano note Martha Argerich, will open the closing ceremony of the competition. The results will be revealed, prizes will be awarded and after a short interval a sumptuous banquet of classical music will begin. That night will belong to virtuosity, piano art and the most creative interpretations of Frédéric Chopin’s music.

Institut Frédéric Chopin en Suisse have co-organized with the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw special prizes for the laureates of the competition, among them a concert tour in Poland and special recitals in the house, where Chopin was born (Żelazowa Wola).

Prize winners will be invited to take part in the annually-organized renowned masterclasses in the Radziejowice palace in Poland and to perform at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Concert hall in Lausanne.