The programme includes Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto featuring South Korean soloist Tae-Yeon Kim, who won second prize at this year’s Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels.
The other works on the programme are by Polish composers: Grażyna Bacewicz's Third Symphony and Overture for Symphony Orchestra by Antoni Szałowski, a prominent representative of the neoclassical style who spent most of his life in Paris, where he died in 1973.
First-stage auditions will begin on Friday, with Polish violinist Wojciech Niedziółka opening the morning session.
He is taking part in the Wieniawski Competition for the second time. Four years ago, he was the highest-placed Polish contestant but failed to advance to the final stage.
A total of 50 violinists are competing for prizes, with South Korea, China and Poland sending the largest contingents.
They were selected from more than 250 applicants who submitted video recordings.
The first-prize winner will receive EUR 60,000, along with a range of career-development opportunities.
The 10-member international jury is chaired by Polish violinist Bartłomiej Nizioł, who won the 1991 Wieniawski Competition.
The prizewinners will be announced on October 22.
The Wieniawski Competition is the world's oldest international violin competition, according to its organisers.
It was first held in Warsaw in 1935 and moved to Poznań after a 17-year hiatus. It has been held in Poznań since 1952, usually every five years.
Past winners have included David and Igor Oistrakh, Ida Haendel, Ginette Neveu, Agata Szymczewska and Veriko Tchumburidze.
Henryk Wieniawski, the Polish virtuoso after whom the competition is named, was a child prodigy who entered the Paris Conservatory at age 8.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest violinists of the 19th century after Niccolò Paganini. He died in 1880 at the age of 45.
Henryk Wieniawski (1835-1880). Image: Polona/Public domain.
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