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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Gramophone is a Media Partner of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition. You can follow the competition by watching the live stream at chopincompetition.pl - and visit us every day ...

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

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