17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition, Warsaw 2015
under the honorary patronage of the President of the Republic of Poland
Bronisław Komorowski
We now know the names of the 84 participants in the 17th Chopin Competition
We now know the names of the 84 pianists who will take part in the 17th Fryderyk
Chopin International Piano Competition in October of this year in Warsaw. For the first
time in the history of the Competition, we were able to follow the Elimination Rounds
online, as well as via mobile app, in every corner of the world.
The most numerous group of artists admitted to the Competition are representatives of China
and Poland – 15 people each. Beyond this, 12 pianists from Japan, 9 from Korea, 7 from
Russia, 5 from the United States, and 3 each from Canada, Great Britain and Italy will
perform in the Competition.
The international jury, led by Prof. Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and comprised of Ludmil
Angelov, Akiko Ebi, Adam Harasiewicz, Yves Henry, Andrzej Jasiński, Ivan Klánský,
Anna Malikova, Alberto Nosè, Piotr Paleczny, Ewa Pobłocka, Marta Sosińska, Wojciech
Świtała and Dina Yoffe, heard 152 candidates from all over the world. According to
Competition rules, the pianists presented a program approximately 30 minutes in length,
comprised of a selection from among Chopin’s etudes, mazurkas, nocturnes, scherzi, ballades,
fantasies and barcaroles.
In accordance with par. III/2 of the Competition Rules, 7 pianists have ensured themselves
participation in the October competition, bypassing the Elimination Rounds: Dinara Klinton
(Ukraine), winner of 2nd Prize at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz in
2013; Nozomi Nakagiri (Japan), winner of 2nd Prize at the Hamamatsu Competition in 2012;
the winners of the 2015 American Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Miami: Rachel
Naomi Kudo (USA) – 2nd place, and Eric Lu (USA) – 1st place; as well as the winners of the
Fryderyk Chopin National Piano Competition in 2015: Andrzej Wierciński (1st prize),
Łukasz Krupiński (2nd prize ex aequo) and Krzysztof Książek (2nd prize ex aequo).
The 17th Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition will begin on 1 October 2015 with
a special concert featuring Martha Argerich. The four-round Competition battle will last
until 20 October.
Thanks to online broadcasting, we were able to follow all of the Elimination Round auditions
on the Internet, via the Competition web page (www.chopincompetition2015.com), mobile
app for iOS and Android (Chopin Competition), and Youtube channel
(youtube.com/chopin2015). During the Elimination Round, we noted approximately 34 000
unique users on the Competition web page. All of the recorded materials are now available in
video-on-demand form in the mobile apps, on the Institute web page, and on the Chopin
Institute YouTube channel.
The Competition Participants:
1. Ms Soo Jung Ann (South Korea)
2. Ms Miyako Arishima (Japan)
3. Mr Tymoteusz Bies (Poland)
4. Mr Rafał Błaszczyk (Poland)
5. Mr Łukasz Piotr Byrdy (Poland)
6. Ms Michelle Candotti (Italy)
7. Mr Luigi Carroccia (Italy)
8. Ms Galina Chistiakova (Russia)
9. Ms Irina Chistiakova (Russia)
10. Mr Seong-Jin Cho (South Korea)
11. Mr Ashley Fripp (United Kingdom)
12. Ms Yasuko Furumi (Japan)
13. Ms Saskia Giorgini (Italy)
14. Ms Katarzyna Gołofit (Poland)
15. Mr Adam Mikołaj Goździewski (Poland)
16. Ms Ivett Gyӧngyӧsi (Hungary)
17. Mr Chi Ho Han (South Korea)
18. Mr Olof Hansen (France)
19. Mr Zhi Chao Julian Jia (China)
20. Mr Aljoša Jurinić (Croatia)
21. Ms Joo Yeon Ka (South Korea)
22. Mr Honggi Kim (South Korea)
23. Ms Su Yeon Kim (South Korea)
24. Ms Yedam Kim (South Korea)
25. Ms Yurika Kimura (Japan)
26. Ms Dinara Klinton (Ukraine)
27. Ms Aimi Kobayashi (Japan)
28. Mr Qi Kong (Chiny)
29. Mr Marek Kozák (Czechy)
30. Mr Łukasz Krupiński (Poland)
31. Mr Krzysztof Książek (Poland)
32. Ms Rachel Naomi Kudo (United States)
33. Mr George Li (United States)
34. Mr Ning Yuen Li (Chiny)
35. Ms Kate Liu (United States)
36. Mr Eric Lu (United States)
37. Ms Tian Lu (China)
38. Mr Xin Luo (China)
39. Mr Roman Martynov (Russia)
40. Ms Nagino Maruyama (Japan)
41. Mr Vladimir Matusevich (Russia)
42. Ms Nao Mieno (Japan)
43. Mr Łukasz Mikołajczyk (Poland)
44. Mr Paweł Motyczyński (Poland)
45. Ms Alexia Mouza (Greece)
46. Ms Jiyeong Mun (South Korea)
47. Ms Mayaka Nakagawa (Japan)
48. Ms Nozomi Nakagiri (Japan)
49. Mr Szymon Nehring (Poland)
50. Ms Anastasiia Nesterova (Russia)
51. Ms Ronald Noerjadi (Indonesia)
52. Ms Mariko Nogami (Japan)
53. Mr Piotr Nowak (Poland)
54. Ms Arisa Onoda (Japan)
55. Mr Georgijs Osokins (Latvia)
56. Mr Jinhyung Park (South Korea)
57. Mr Piotr Ryszard Pawlak (Poland)
58. Ms Zuzanna Pietrzak (Poland)
59. Ms Tiffany Poon (China)
60. Mr Kausikan Rajeshkumar (United Kingdom)
61. Mr Charles Richard-Hamelin (Canada)
62. Ms Tamila Salimdjanova (Uzbekistan)
63. Mr Cristian Ioan Sandrin (Romania)
64. Ms Natalie Schwamová (Czech Republic)
65. Mr Aristo Chingtoa Sham (China)
66. Ms Boyang Shi (China)
67. Mr Dmitry Shishkin (Russia)
68. Ms Rina Sudo (Japan)
69. Mr Michał Szymanowski (Poland)
70. Ms Rikono Takeda (Japan)
71. Mr Arseny Tarasevich-Nikolaev (Russia)
72. Mr Alexei Tartakovsky (United States)
73. Mr Hin-Yat Tsang (China)
74. Mr Alexander Ullman (United Kingdom)
75. Mr Chao Wang (China)
76. Mr ZhuWang (China)
77. Mr Andrzej Wierciński (Poland)
78. Mr Yuchong Wu (China)
79. Mr Zi Xu (China)
80. Mr Yike (Tony) Yang (Canada)
81. Ms Yuliya Yermalayeva (Belarus)
82. Mr Cheng Zhang (China)
83. Ms Chuhan Zhang (China)
84. Ms Annie Zhou (Canada)