The International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, the oldest of its kind in the world, is held every five years in the Polish capital Warsaw and is avidly followed by lovers of Chopin, the Franco-Polish composer and pianist who was born in 1810 in Zelazowa Wola near the Polish capital.

Eighty-one pianists from 23 countries are now competing for honours at the competition marking the bicentennial of the composer’s birth.

The competition runs until October 20 and hundreds of performances of Ballades, Nocturnes, Mazurkas and other piano pieces by Chopin are currently available to enjoy through the live competition webcast at konkurs.chopin.pl:

Watch Live Webcast

Schedule

When the broadcast is not live, you can instead listen to the Competition Chronicle mp3:s

Update:

Who qualified for the second stage? Find out here!

The 2nd stage auditions will start on Saturday, the 9th of October and they will end on Wednesday, the 13th of October.

Chopin Express is an official, bilingual newspaper of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition published by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute with the cooperation of the musical magazine „Gramophone”. The newspaper will be distributed for free during the whole Competition in the streets of Warsaw and in the Warsaw Philharmonic and are also available online as pdf.



Follow along in the scores while you listen:

Chopin piano sheet music to download and print

/nilsjohan