Nine pianists get free pass to the Chopin Competition in Warsaw
NewsThe event has announced nine pianists who have been exempted from the preliminary round because they have won other contests.
They are:
Piotr Alexewicz, Poland (1 award, All Polish Piano Competition 2020, Warsaw)
Avery Gagliano, US (1 award, Miami 2020)
Adam Kałduński, Poland (1 award, Beijing 2019 and 2 award All Polish Piano Competition 2020, Warsaw)
Szymon Nehring, Poland (2 award, Tel-Aviv, 2017, pictured)
Evren Ozel, US (2 award, Miami 2020)
Kamil Pacholec, Poland (2 award, Bydgoszcz, 2019)
Piotr Pawlak, Poland (1 award, Darmstadt 2017 and 2 award All Polish Competition, Warsaw 2020)
Yutong Sun, China (2 award, Santander 2018)
Tomoharu Ushida, Japan (2 award, Hamamatsu 2018)
The competition is due to open on October 2, after Covid postponements.
In all, 87 pianists (out of 500 applicants) have completed the preliminaries. They include 22 Chinese, 16 Poles, 14 Japanese, 7 South Koreans, 6 Italians. The full list reads as follows:
Leonora Armellini, Italy
J J Jun Li Bui, Canada
Michelle Candotti, Italy
Kai-Min Chang, Chinese Taipei
Junhui Chen, China
Xuehong Chen, China
Zixi Chen, China
Hyounglok Choi, South Korea
Federico Gad Crema, Italy
Aleksandra H. Dąbek, Poland
Alberto Ferro, Italy
Yasuko Furumi, Japan
Alexander Gadjiev, Italy/Slovenia
Martin Garcia Garcia, Spain
Eva Gevorgyan, Russia/Armenia
Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan, Cuba
Joanna Goranko, Poland
Chelsea Guo, U.S.A.
Eric Guo, Canada
Saaya Hara, Japan
Yifan Hou, China
Wei-Ting Hsieh, Chinese Taipei
Kaoruko Igarashi, Japan
Riko Imai, Japan
Junichi Ito, Japan
Asaki Iwai, Japan
San Jittakarn, Thailand
Jooyeon Ka, South Korea
Nikolay Khozyainov, Russia
Su Yeon Kim, South Korea
Aimi Kobayashi, Japan
Mateusz Krzyżowski, Poland
Jakub Kuszlik, Poland
Shushi Kyomasu, Japan
Hyuk Lee, South Korea
Jaeyoon Lee, South Korea
Xiaoxuan Li, China
Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, Canada
Julia Łozowska, Poland
Xuanyi Mao, China
Tomasz Marut, Poland
Yupeng Mei, China
Arsenii Mun, Russia
Viet Trung Nguyen, Vietnam/Poland
Georgijs Osokins, Latvia
Jinhyung Park, South Korea
Yeon-Min Park, South Korea
Jiana Peng, China
Leonardo Pierdomenico, Italy
Zuzanna Pietrzak, Poland
Hao Rao, China
Yangyang Ruan, China
Sohgo Sawada, Japan
Aristo Sham, China, Hong Kong
Miyu Shindo, Japan
Talon Smith, US
Kyohei Sorita, Japan
Szuyu Su, Chinese Taipei
Hayato Sumino, Japan
Aleksandra Świgut, Poland
Rikono Takeda, Japan
Shun Shun Tie, China
Sarah Tuan, US
Chao Wang, China
Zitong Wang, China
Zijian Wei, China
Marcin Wieczorek, Poland
Andrzej Wierciński, Poland
Victoria Wong, Canada
Yuchong Wu, China
Lingfei (Stephan) Xie, Canada/China
Zi Xu, China
Yuanfan Yang, United Kingdom
Anastasia Yasko, Russia
Andrey Zenin, Russia
Boao Zhang, China
Yilan Zhao, China
Ziji Zhao, China
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