Yulianna Avdeeva, the 2010 winner, and Garrick Ohlsson, the 1970 winner, will perform Francis Poulenc’s Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra.
Bruce Liu, who won in 2021, will be the soloist in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major.
All three will then be joined by Dang Thai Son, the 1980 winner, for Johann Sebastian Bach’s Concerto for Four Pianos.
The gala will open with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Andrzej Boreyko performing Chopin’s Polonaise in A major in an orchestral arrangement.
Ticket sales for the inaugural concert and the winners’ concert on October 21 begin on Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Fryderyk Chopin Museum box office in Warsaw and online at ebilet.pl.
Poland's National Chopin Institute, which organises the competition, says past inaugural concerts have featured top pianists such as Artur Rubinstein, Martha Argerich and Nelson Freire, accompanied by violinists Henryk Szeryng and Wanda Wiłkomirska.
Eighty-five pianists have qualified for this year’s competition. Sixty were selected in a preliminary round, while 19 earned places as winners of international contests in venues such as Leeds, Tel Aviv, Miami, Bolzano, Hamamatsu, Poland's Bydgoszcz and Warsaw.
Founded in 1927, the International Chopin Piano Competition is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious piano contests.
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