For two decades now, a certain important pretext has drawn photojournalist Wojciech Grzędziński away from the front line and ...

If the city of Warsaw were a person it would be Frederic Chopin. The 19th century piano virtuoso lived here for the first 20 formative and most productive years of his life and the city and its people ...

Rafał Blechacz first came to international prominence when he won the 2005 Chopin piano competition in Warsaw. He is still the only pianist to have entered the contest and won all six prizes: first, ...

I was with him on Ben Laude’s live Chopin Podcast on Sunday night, when he mentioned that he chose the Shigeru Kawai for its ample resonance and sustaining capabilities. If you were to ask me who has ...

Filip Lech, Culture.pl’s music journalist and editor, and Iza Smelczyńska, musicologist and improviser, discuss the first round of the Chopin Competition.

Frederic Chopin isn’t just a composer in Poland, he’s a national hero. His music fills concert halls, cafes and even the capital’s main airport bears his name. Every five years, Warsaw hosts the ...

The jury of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, chaired by Garrick Ohlsson, have decided on 11 pianists ...

Chopin, born in Warsaw, Poland, left his homeland at 20 and passed away in Paris at 39. Chopin learned of a citizen uprising ...

From fake shirtless plumbers fixing dishwashers to mysterious strangers lurking in the background, people are using AI to ...

Behind the scenes notes. 8th day Chopin Piano Competition. On Friday, October 10th, the second day of the second stage of the ...