The 18th International Chopin Piano Competition, which will be held in Warsaw October 2-23, 2021, has announced the 87 pianists who qualify to compete in the main competition this fall. Over 500 applicants submitted recordings and 164 of those applicants were chosen for the Preliminary round of the competition. The 87 pianists announced today were chosen from the 151 applicants who participated in the Preliminary round earlier this month.
The 87 pianists who are moving on to the main competition in October were chosen from China, Poland, Japan, South Korea, Italy, Armenia, Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, Latvia, Russia, Thailand, USA, United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
- Leonora Armellini, Italy
- J J Jun Li Bui, Canada
- Michelle Candotti, Italy
- Kai-Min Chang, Chinese Taipei
- Junhui Chen, China
- Xuehong Chen, China
- Zixi Chen, China
- Hyounglok Choi, South Korea
- Federico Gad Crema, Italy
- Aleksandra H. Dąbek, Poland
- Alberto Ferro, Italy
- Yasuko Furumi, Japan
- Alexander Gadjiev, Italy/Slovenia
- Martin Garcia Garcia, Spain
- Eva Gevorgyan, Russia/Armenia
- Jorge Gonzalez Buajasan, Cuba
- Joanna Goranko, Poland
- Chelsea Guo, U.S.A.
- Eric Guo, Canada
- Saaya Hara, Japan
- Yifan Hou, China
- Wei-Ting Hsieh, Chinese Taipei
- Kaoruko Igarashi, Japan
- Riko Imai, Japan
- Junichi Ito, Japan
- Asaki Iwai, Japan
- San Jittakarn, Thailand
- Jooyeon Ka, South Korea
- Nikolay Khozyainov, Russia
- Su Yeon Kim, South Korea
- Aimi Kobayashi, Japan
- Mateusz Krzyżowski, Poland
- Jakub Kuszlik, Poland
- Shushi Kyomasu, Japan
- Hyuk Lee, South Korea
- Jaeyoon Lee, South Korea
- Xiaoxuan Li, China
- Bruce (Xiaoyu) Liu, Canada
- Julia Łozowska, Poland
- Xuanyi Mao, China
- Tomasz Marut, Poland
- Yupeng Mei, China
- Arsenii Mun, Russia
- Viet Trung Nguyen, Vietnam/Poland
- Georgijs Osokins, Latvia
- Jinhyung Park, South Korea
- Yeon-Min Park, South Korea
- Jiana Peng, China
- Leonardo Pierdomenico, Italy
- Zuzanna Pietrzak, Poland
- Hao Rao, China
- Yangyang Ruan, China
- Sohgo Sawada, Japan
- Aristo Sham, China, Hong Kong
- Miyu Shindo, Japan
- Talon Smith, U.S.A.
- Kyohei Sorita, Japan
- Szuyu Su, Chinese Taipei
- Hayato Sumino, Japan
- Aleksandra Świgut, Poland
- Rikono Takeda, Japan
- Shun Shun Tie, China
- Sarah Tuan, U.S.A.
- Chao Wang, China
- Zitong Wang, China
- Zijian Wei, China
- Marcin Wieczorek, Poland
- Andrzej Wierciński, Poland
- Victoria Wong, Canada
- Yuchong Wu, China
- Lingfei (Stephan) Xie, Canada/China
- Zi Xu, China
- Yuanfan Yang, United Kingdom
- Anastasia Yasko, Russia
- Andrey Zenin, Russia
- Boao Zhang, China
- Yilan Zhao, China
- Ziji Zhao, China
Based on the Competition Regulations, par. III/2, the following pianists are qualified directly to the Competition without having to participate in the Preliminaries:
Piotr Alexewicz ‒ Poland (1st prize, OKP Warsaw 2020)
Avery Gagliano ‒ U.S.A. (1st prize, Miami 2020)
Adam Kałduński ‒ Poland (1st prize, Beijing 2019 and 2nd prize OKP Warsaw 2020)
Szymon Nehring ‒ Poland (1st prize, Tel Aviv 2017)
Evren Ozel ‒ U.S.A. (2nd prize, Miami 2020)
Kamil Pacholec ‒ Poland (2nd prize, Bydgoszcz 2019)
Piotr Pawlak ‒ Poland (1st prize, Darmstadt 2017 and 2nd prize, OKP Warsaw 2020
Yutong Sun ‒ China (2nd prize, Santander 2018)
Tomoharu Ushida ‒ Japan (2nd prize, Hamamatsu 2018)
More information can be found on the Chopin Competition’s official website.
