He Rafael Orozco Higher Conservatory of Music of Cordoba became this Friday a mecca for international piano with the presentation of the nineteenth edition of the Fryderyk Chopin International Piano Competition in Warsaw, one of the oldest and most prestigious musical competitions in the world, which will be held from 2 to October 23, 2025. .
A total of 80 pianists will compete for prizes in the competition, for which there are no longer any entries and which, throughout its history, has been won by piano stars such as Maurizio PolliniMartha Argerich, Krystian Zimerman or Yulianna Avdeeva.
In 2025, events commemorating the centenary of this event born in 1927 will begin and, as the director of the Chopin Institute, Artur Szklener, pointed out in the presentation, it is “in a phase of strengthening its international projection and of search for alliances. .” with other countries and musical encounters.
“Fruitful exchange” with the Chopin Institute
This strategy frames the collaboration agreement established with the City Hall of Cordoba, signed this Thursday, by which each edition of the Rafael Orozco Piano Festival One of the winners of the Chopin Competition will be present and young students from Córdoba will participate in master classes at the Institute’s summer school.
The Chopin Competition, which counts among its sponsors and partners the Polish Ministry of Culture and some of the country’s main companies, will award 242,000 euros in prizes during the next edition, including 60,000 for the winner. The competition can be followed via various channels, including its website, the Chopin Institute’s social networks, YouTube and the Chopin Competition mobile application for smartphones.
At the same time, the artistic director of the Piano Festival Rafael Orozco of Cordoba, Juan Miguel Moreno Calderonunderlined the “global importance” of the Chopin Institute, organizer of a competition which “reflects the history of the 20th century piano”.
The next edition of the Cordoba festival, in November 2025, will reserve, thanks to this “fruitful exchange”, according to Moreno Calderón, an appointment for one of the winners of this competition, which takes place every five years, although the last edition, corresponding to 2020, had to be postponed to 2021 due to the pandemic. An edition in which the first prize was awarded to Bruce Liu and the third to the Spaniard Martín García García, who participates in this edition of the Rafael Orozco Festival with the Cordoba Orchestrainaugurating this collaboration.
