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Chopin without frontiers

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Roberto Galea 16.09.2015 12:50
The 17th International Chopin Competition in the Polish capital Warsaw will open on 1 October.
National Chopin Institute in Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia CommonsNational Chopin Institute in Warsaw. Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The new "Chopin without frontiers" slogan comprises city banners, spots in all television and radio stations and cinemas, the Internet, the social media and YouTube. For the first time in the history of the event, all auditions as well as prizewinners’ concerts will be available live on youtube.com/chopin2015.

TVP Kultura, the culture-and-arts channel of Polish public television, will have 130 hours of coverage, with live transmissions of the performances, comments by music critics and pianists and interviews with participants and jury members.

The director of the Chopin Competition, Artur Szklener, has told a press conference in Warsaw that the “aim of the ‘Chopin without frontiers’ campaign is to attract the broadest sections of the public to follow the event”.

“The mobile application breaks down all barriers and makes classical music and high culture accessible to people of all age-groups, in all corners of the world,” he said.

As many as 81 pianists from 20 countries will compete for awards during the three-week competition. Poland has 15 entrants. China, Japan and South Korea are next on the list of the most sizeable contingents.

The international jury is chaired by Poland’s Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń and the event’s Honorary Committee includes such prominent personalities as composer Krzysztof Penderecki, film director Andrzej Wajda, conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski and historian Norman Davies. (mk/rg/rk)

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