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
The preliminary jury has given its verdict!
“We received applications from all over the world and many participants represent a very high level of pianistic ability. You therefore already deserve our highest compliments for your work. Due to the level displayed by the candidates, the preliminary jury has taken the decision to allow one additional candidate per age category to participate in the competition this year.”
List of candidates who passed the preliminary stage:
First category (under 12 years):
Yuliana Beziazychna (Ukraine)
Katherine Hibbs (Switzerland // Singapore)
Keshav Krishnan (India // Netherlands)
Antonio Pavan (Italy)
Siyuan Peng (China)
Elizabeth Pinyan Guo (England)
Adam Tarko (Poland)
Khloe Wu (Canada)
Taylor Xing (Canada)
Aria Zhao (United States of America)
- Jacqueline Wang (Australia)
Second category (12-15 years):
Jacob Cai (Canada)
Ester Ferrario (Italy)
Benedykt Heszen (Poland)
Deni Kokhanovskii (Russia)
Luca Newman (England)
Gabriele Rizzo (Italy)
Dillon Sze-Pui Chan (Australia)
Adriana Vasilski (Germany)
Zuzanna Wojdak (Poland)
- Martina Meola (Italy)
Third category (15-18 years old):
Kenneth Chen (Canada)
Ivan Chepkin (Russia)
Franciszek Gąsieniec (Poland)
Victor Kruel (Brazil)
Yulia Nakashima (Japan // South Korea)
Marcin Saja (Poland)
Christina Sung (United States of America // South Korea)
Sunny Ritter (Canada // Austria)
Jarmin Weng (Canada)
Kongyan Xin (China // Inner Mongolia)
- Deva Mira Sperandio (Spain // Switzerland)
28 March 2025 // Auditorio Stelio Molo // 6 PM
Arrival of participants ;
Organization and planning // 11:00 AM at the Hotel Continental
Inauguration concert given by the piano legend Martha Argerich, jury president of the Jeune Chopin Competition, Martín García García, Cédric Pescia, Alberto Nosè and Magdalena Hirsz at Auditorio Stelio Molo.
The programme:
Martha Argerich
Frédéric Chopin : Préludes op.28
Magdalena Hirsz
Frédéric Chopin: Mazurkas op.67 et op.68
Martha Argerich et Magdalena Hirsz
Claude Debussy : Six Epigraphes Antiques, 4 hands
Alberto Nosè
Frédéric Chopin : Nocturne en do op.48 no 1, Ballade en fa mineur op. 52 no 4
Cédric Pescia
J. S. Bach : Suite Française en Sol majeur no 5 BWV 816
Martin Garcia Garcia
Frédéric Chopin : Impromptu Op. 51 No. 3 in G-flat major
Impromptu Op. 29 No. 1 in A-flat major
Impromptu Op. 36 No. 2 in F-sharp major
Fantaisie-Impromptu Op. 66 in C-sharp minor
Tickets can be bought online here
The concert will feature a recital given on the original, period 1848 Pleyel piano and Kawai-Shigeru concert piano.
29 – 30 March 2025 // Auditions programme will be published after the 22nd of January 2025.
All the auditions will be held at the Auditorio Stelio Molo.
31 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.