The concert featuring the winner of 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw had been announced for quite some time – since the publication of the piano contest’s results, we have known that the pianist to perform at A. Mickiewicz University Auditorium on Monday evening is Eric Lu (who, incidentally, already played with the Poznań Philharmonic Orchestra under Łukasz Borowicz at 36th International Festival “Chopin w barwach jesieni”, or “Chopin in the Colours of Autumn” in Ostrów Wielkopolski in 2017).

This time, the composition the winner of the 19th Fryderyk Chopin piano event performs with our orchestra is the Piano Concerto in F minor, Op. 21. Besides Poznań, he plays the same piece with the National Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Radio in Katowice, and gives a recital of Chopin’s music at the National Forum of Music in Wrocław – the three are the only musical institutions in Poland to host the winner of this year’s Chopin Competition right after the event.

However, on Monday evening we have one more surprise for music lovers: the opening part of the concert features Fryderyk Chopin’s compositions for solo piano performed by Kevin Chen, holder of the 2nd Prize of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition! Thus, it appears there are no fewer than two reasons to make this evening truly memorable!