They represent China (six contestants), Japan (three), Poland (three), South Korea (two), the United States (two), as well as Georgia and Malaysia.
The Polish participants in the third stage are Piotr Alexewicz, Piotr Pawlak and Yehuda Prokopowicz.
Alexewicz, 25, is a graduate of the Academy of Music in Wrocław, south-western Poland.
He is currently honing his skills at the Zurich University of the Arts (Hochschule der Künste Zürich) in Switzerland.
This year, he won second prize at the Hilton Head Piano Competition in the United States and was a semi-finalist at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth, Texas.
Pawlak, 27, who is taking part in the competition for the third time, has numerous international awards to his credit, including first place at the Maj Lind Piano Competition in Helsinki in 2022 and second prize at the Chopin Competition on Historical Instruments in Warsaw in 2023.
Trained also as an organist, he is now studying conducting and has won national and international Olympiads in mathematics and computer science.
Prokopowicz was born in 2005 in Netanya, Israel.
He spent the first eight years of his life near Jerusalem, starting piano lessons with his sister at the age of four.
After moving to Poland, he continued his education at primary and secondary music schools in Kraków, graduating in 2024.
He is currently a student of Krzysztof Książek at the city’s Academy of Music. He is a laureate of more than thirty competitions in Poland and abroad.
In the third stage of the competition, which begins on Tuesday, participants will give a recital lasting between 45 and 55 minutes, consisting of the Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35, or the Sonata in B minor, Op. 58; a set of Mazurkas, and one or more other solo pieces by Chopin.
The competition jury, chaired by American pianist Garrick Ohlsson, winner of the 1970 Warsaw competition, also includes Dang Thai Son and Yulianna Avdeeva, winners of the Warsaw Competition in 1980 and 2010 respectively, as well as internationally acclaimed pianists such as Nelson Goerner, Kevin Kenner, Robert McDonald, Krzysztof Jabłoński, Piotr Paleczny and Ewa Pobłocka, together with American pianist and Chopin scholar John Rink and British music critic John Allison.
The names of the pianists advancing to the finals of the competition will be announced on Thursday, 16 October.
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