Scoring
According to the competition’s regulations, the list of judges' scores was recently published online. It includes both the original scores and those corrected in accordance with paragraph XIII, point 7 of the Jury Regulations. As in previous years, the competition used one of the commonly applied methods of correcting individual scores to a specified maximum margin of deviation from the arithmetic mean of all jurors' scores, amounting to 3 points in the first stage and 2 points in subsequent stages. According to this method, if, for example, the average score awarded to a given participant in the second stage by all jurors is 18.5, and one of the jurors awarded 23 points, their score is adjusted to 20.5 (18.5 + 2). After the corrections have been made, a new average is calculated, and this becomes the result of the participant's assessment in that stage. The averages included in the summary are the averages after corrections.
In the summary of stage results, both the points awarded to participants in a given stage and in previous stages, as well as the cumulative final result are presented, taking into account the weights for each stage.This method has been used in the history of the Chopin Competition.
19th Chopin Competition – scores by stage
19th Chopin Competition – results by stage
Numbers
The international community of music lovers followed the auditions most closely on the YouTube channel of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute. Shiori Kuwahara's final performance attracted a record number of live viewers – over 71,000. The auditions were most frequently viewed in Japan, Poland, India, South Korea, and the United States. For the first time, recitals and concerts could also be listened to live on TikTok.
The broadcasts from the Competition attracted hundreds of thousands of people to their TV sets and radio receivers as the entire event was available on TVP Kultura and Polish Radio.
The 19th Chopin Competition was also present on social media: on the Chopin Institute's Facebook profile (in five languages), Chinese Weibo, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter.
During the 15 days of auditions for the 19th Chopin Competition, the participants performed 102 hours of Chopin's music.
The 20th edition of the Fryderyk Chopin Competition will be held in 2030- three years after the event’s 100th anniversary. “The Chopin” is indeed a cultural phenomenon. Its founder, Jerzy Zurawlew's concept was to combine two opposing ideas in a single musical event: subjectively perceived art and objectively assessed rivalry, resembling a sporting contest. Thanks to the clash of those elements, the Competition becomes a forum for discussing not just the performance of music, but also current notions of culture: prevailing canons of beauty and the possibilities for elaborating social consensus (endless disputes between judges, critics and audiences!). Not without significance, of course, is the figure of the Competition's patron, Fryderyk Chopin: a composer well known and widely adored, though at the start of the twentieth century, when the idea for the Competition was germinating, just as strongly criticised. The Competition was partly responsible for a renaissance of Chopin's music, which proved exceptionally open to new interpretations.
Laureates
First Prize – Eric Lu
Second Prize – Kevin Chen
Third Prize – Zitong Wang
Fourth Prize – Tianyao Lyu and Shiori Kuwahara (ex aequo)
Fifth Prize – Piotr Alexewicz and Vincent Ong (ex aequo)
Sixth Prize – William Yang
Jury
Garrick Ohlsson (Chair), John Allison, Yulianna Avdeeva, Michel Beroff, Sa Chen, Akiko Ebi, Nelson Goerner, Krzysztof Jablonski, Kevin Kenner, Momo Kodama, Robert McDonald, Piotr Paleczny, Ewa Poblocka, Katarzyna Popowa-Zydron, John Rink, Wojciech Switala, Dang Thai Son
Artists
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra/ Andrzej Boreyko, Conductor
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