Bruce (Xiaoiu) Liu from Canada has won the 18th Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, organisers announced in the early hours of Thursday.PAP/Wojciech Olkuśnik The jury of the prestigious ...

Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov, a 19-year-old student at the Cleveland Institute of Music, won third prize this week at the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, one of the world’s ...

Yulianna Avdeeva has scored a spectacular success. As first female winner of the International Fryderyk Chopin Competition since Martha Argerich triumphed in now-legendary fashion in 1965, the 25-year ...

To fully understand Poland you must understand the classical composer Frederic Chopin. It has been said by some experts that to understand Poland you must understand the composer Frederic Chopin. The ...

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Three pianists are set to perform on Monday, the third and last day of the finals at the 19th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw. Canada’s Kevin Chen, 20, is the winner of the Artur Rubinstein ...

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WARSAW, Poland -- As Frederic Chopin gasped for air on his deathbed in Paris in 1849, he whispered a request that became the stuff of musical legend: Remove my heart after I die and entomb it in ...

Nearly two centuries after his birth, Frederic Chopin remains a remarkably potent artistic force in Poland’s capital, his age-old music inspiring perpetually new waves of creativity and invention.