Competition for Amateur Pianists

 

The 5th International Fryderyk Chopin Competition    

for Amateur Pianists, Warsaw 2021

 

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List of pianists accepted for the Fifth International F. Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists

1             Asano Toshiko (Japan)

2             Bayka Mustafa Saffet (Turkey)

3             Bedon Julien (France)

4             Berro Miriam (Argentina)

5             Blanco Gianfranco (Italy)

6             Bronowicz Anna (Poland)

7             Chang Pangyen (Taiwan)

8             Cho Eunae (South Korea)

9             Cybulski Roman (Poland)

10           DiCasoli Carl Mathew (USA)

11           Donadio Leonard (USA)

12           Flocke Norbert (Uruguay)

13           Ho Roseanna Wen-Yee (USA)

14           Izvoranu Viorica (Romania)

15           Kume Yukari (Japan)

16           Kveliashvili Irine (Georgia)

17           Lavery Georgina  (New Zealand)

18           Lee David (USA)

19           Longacre-Whiteside Irene (USA)

20           Mukai Remi (Japan)

21           Nagayama Eriko (Japan)

22           Napolitano Roberto (Italy)

23           Nowacki Tomasz (Poland)

24           Oe Hiroshi (Japan)

25           Ormando Nicola (Italy)

26           Park Byeong Cheon (South Korea)

27           Saito Julie (Japan)

28           Santiago Eladio Arturo (USA)

29           Stephenson Robin (France)

30           Subsomboon Rit (Thailand)

31           Sutherland Sean (St.Vincent and the Grenadines)

32           Tanaka Keita  (Japan)

33           Tanigawa Utako (USA)

34           Tazawa Hideko (Japan)

35           Toya Hiroko (Japan)

36           Traicu Perianu Monica (Romania)

37           Trzaskalik Tadeusz  (Poland)

38           Wang Kao Rebecca (USA)

39           Ye Johanna (China)

40           Yoon Inah (South Korea)

 

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The Fifth International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists*

Rules

 

I

1. The Fifth International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists, organised by the Fryderyk Chopin Society, will be held in Warsaw, September 6 to 11, 2021.
2. The Jury of the Competition will comprise outstanding pianists and piano teachers.
3. The Competition is open to persons of all nationalities who
   – were born before 1 September 1996,
   – do not earn their living from piano performance or instruction,
   – are not studying piano at a music school / conservatory or completed their formal piano studies before 2016,
   – did not win top prize in the previous editions of the Competition.

II

1. Candidates wishing to enter the Competition are required to complete in Polish or English the application form on www.tifc.chopin.pl/en/competition-for-amateur-pianists/ and email it with the enclosed documents to amator@chopin.pl or send it by mail to:
   Towarzystwo im. Fryderyka Chopina
   ul. Tamka 43
   00-355 Warszawa
   Poland

The deadline for receiving applications is 14 April 2021.

Documents to be enclosed with the application:

a) short biographical note (in Polish or English), clearly indicating the candidate’s professional career,
b) photocopy of document indicating date of birth (translation into Polish or English should be provided),
c) one digital, high-resolution photograph (min. 300 dpi),
d) list of works to be played during the Competition (1^st stage, 2^nd stage, final), including the length of each piece,
e) CD, DVD, memory card, pen drive, sound file (MP3,Wav) with the candidate’s recording of works by 18^th-20^th century composers, including one piece by Chopin, approx. 20 minutes in length,
f) record of application fee payment of 50 Euro or 60 USD or 200 PLN. If the applicant is accepted, there will be an additional payment of 100 Euro or 120 USD or 400 PLN.

2. The candidate will pay all money transfer fees charged by the bank.
3. The entrance fee and the additional payment are not refundable.
4. Payments should be made into the Society’s account

Towarzystwo im. Fryderyka Chopin:
ul Tamka 43
00-355 Warszawa
Poland

– payments in PLN
Santander Bank Polska S.A.
SWIFT – WBKPPLPP
IBAN – PL 31 1910 1048 2209 9981 8939 0001

– payments in USD
Santander Bank Polska S.A.
SWIFT – WBKPPLPP
IBAN – PL 74 1910 1048 2209 9981 8939 0003

– payments in EURO
Santander Bank Polska S.A.
SWIFT – WBKPPLPP
IBAN – PL 04 1910 1048 2209 9981 8939 0002

The applicant’s name and purpose of payment “Wpłata na V Konkurs dla Pianistów Amatorów” should be indicated.

5. Application will be rejected if any of the above documents is / are missing or if received after 14 April 2021.
6. Submitted documents will not be returned.

III

1. The applications meeting the 14 April 2021 deadline will be examined by the Selection Committee. The Committee will have the right to reject an application without giving reasons for doing so.

The Committee will be appointed by the Fryderyk Chopin Society. 

The Competition Director will chair the Committee’s meetings.

2. The Committee’s decisions will be final and incontestable.
3. The Selection Committee will assess the recordings and accept about 40 candidates for the first stage.

IV

1. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance or rejection by 20 May 2021.
2. Acceptance of the application means that a contract has been concluded between the Fryderyk Chopin Society and the applicant for participation in the Competition on terms and conditions set out in these Rules.
3. Participants are required to come to Warsaw on 5 September 2021 at the latest and register with the Competition Office.

 

V

1. Candidates will pay for their own travel, board and accommodation.
2. Contestants will perform in two stages and in the final.
3. Participants will have the opportunity to test-play the piano on which they will perform during the Competition. On 5 September 2021 participants will receive the date and time of test-playing and of their first performance, and the timetable for practising. 
4. The Fryderyk Chopin Society will make available pianos for all contestants to practise:
   – 2 hours daily in the first stage,  
   – 5 hours in the second stage, 
   – 3 hours in the final.

VI

1. Contestants will appear in the alphabetical order of their names, beginning with the drawn letter. This order will basically be followed throughout the Competition.
2. For organisation and programme related reasons the Competition Office has the right to change the sequence of a day’s performances.

In the event of a contestant’s illness, confirmed by the Competition’s medical service, the contestant may be allowed to perform outside the established sequence, at the end of the current stage.  Such altered order of appearances will be irrevocable until the end of the Competition.

3. In principle not more than 20 participants will be passed into the second stage and up to 8 into the final.
4. All performances will be open to the public.

VII

1. The Board of the Fryderyk Chopin Society will appoint the Chairman and members of the Jury.
2. The Jury will work in accordance with the Rules of the Jury approved by the Board of the Fryderyk Chopin Society.

VIII

Competition Programme

Stage I – playing time 15-20 minutes

• a waltz by Fryderyk Chopin, a piece by Ignacy Jan Paderewski and some pieces by 18^th-20^th century composers of the contestant’s own choosing (contestants may also play other works by Chopin and Paderewski).

Stage II – playing time 15-20 minutes

• two mazurkas by Fryderyk Chopin and some pieces by 18^th-20^th century composers of the contestant’s own choosing (contestants may also play other works by Chopin).

Final – playing time 20-25 minutes

• a polonaise by Fryderyk Chopin and some pieces by 18^th-20^th century composers of the contestant’s own choosing (contestants may also play other works by Chopin).

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Music can be purchased on-line: https://pwm.com.pl/en/sklep

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Works played in a previous stage may not be performed again.

It is recommended that pieces be played from memory, but playing from music is allowed.

Should a contestant overrun the time limit, the Jury Chairman may stop their performance.

 

IX

1. The finalists will be awarded the following prizes:
   – first prize                         –   10,000 PLN
   – second prize                    –     8,000 PLN
   – third prize                        –     6,000 PLN

   – 5 honourable mentions  –  3,000 PLN each

   Prize for the best performance of Chopin mazurkas  –  3,000 PLN

   Prize for the best contestant who did not qualify for the final
   – 2,000 PLN

2. Each finalist will be named Laureate of the Fifth International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists. All contestants will receive participation diplomas.
3. The Jury has the right to change by a 2/3 majority the number and classification of prizes and honourable mentions with the proviso that the individual prizes and mentions will be neither lower nor higher than provided for in the Rules of the Competition.
4. All decisions made by the Jury will be final and incontestable.
5. The award ceremony will be held on 11 September 2021.

X

1. Winners of the three top prizes are obliged to appear free-of-charge in the winners’ concert to be held on 11 September 2021. An unexcused absence from the above concert will be tantamount to giving up the prize money.
2. The Jury will establish the programme of the concert in consultation with the performers.

XI

The participants will transfer to the Fryderyk Chopin Society free-of-charge their copyrights arising from:
– their performance of works during the Competition,
– their performance of works during the winners’ concert,
– their rights to their visual representations created in any photographic or recording technology during their performance in the Competition and the winners’ concert.

The participants will transfer the above-mentioned rights free-of-charge, so that the Fryderyk Chopin Society can use these rights without any time or territorial limit for the purpose of:

1. recording,
2. reproducing / duplicating in any technology,
3. offering for sale,
4. storing in computer memory or presenting on the Internet or any other network,
5. public replaying or performing,
6. exhibiting / displaying,
7. projecting on a screen,
8. licensing,
9. leasing,
10. broadcasting on cable or wireless radio/television by ground transmitters or via satellite.
11. live and/or simultaneous and integral radio/TV broadcasts and replays.

The above-mentioned rights will be exercised in the areas indicated above by persons, companies, radio and TV broadcasting stations and recording companies authorised to do so by the Fryderyk Chopin Society.

 

XII

The Competition Director will make all decisions on organisation-related matters exceeding the powers of the Jury.  His decisions will be final and incontestable.  In case of doubt the Polish language version of the Rules will be used in interpreting and clarifying their provisions.  Any matter not provided for in these Rules will be subject to Polish law, and any disputes will be settled by a court of law in whose jurisdiction the registered office of the Fryderyk Chopin Society is located.

* Conditional on the COVID-19 situation. 

  

 

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The International Fryderyk Chopin Competition for Amateur Pianists

We are pleased to invite you to participate in the fourth edition of the Competition to be held from 16-21 September 2018 in Warsaw.  We hope that pianists from all over the world, for whom playing the piano is a passion rather than a way of earning a living, will find participation in the Competition an attractive proposition.
The rules of competition basically remain unchanged (see Rules).  However, since in 2018 Poland will celebrate a hundred years of regaining independence, we have introduced a new requirement.  Participants will be required to perform a piece by Ignacy Jan Paderewski of their own choosing.  Our intention is to honour Paderewski, a great pianist and composer, Chopin’s spiritual heir, but also a prominent politician whose tireless efforts largely contributed to Poland regaining her independence in 1918.

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