XVI Chopin International Piano Competition
Hartford, CT
presented by Connecticut Chopin Foundation, Inc.
March 12-16, 2025
REPERTOIRE
Category "Piano Talents" (max 10 min.)
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• One or more compositions chosen by the candidate
Category "Junior" (max 13 min.)
• One piece by Chopin
• One or more compositions chosen by the candidate
Category "Young Artist" (max 20 min.)
• F.Chopin: one Etude freely chosen by contestant.
• F.Chopin: one piece chosen by contestant
• One or more compositions chosen by the candidate
Category "Professional"
Preliminary Round
• Any virtuosic piece (max. 5 minutes)
• F. Chopin : one Etude freely chosen by the contestant opp.10 and 25
• One Etude by other composer than Chopin
• One Mazurka by Chopin
Final Round (30-35 min.)
• One of the following pieces by Chopin: Ballades, Scherzi, Fantasia op. 49, Polonaises (op. 22, 44, 53, 61), or first and
last movement (both) of Sonata No.2, or No.3
• One or more compositions chosen of the following composers: F Schubert, R.Schumann, J.Brahms, F.Liszt,
S.Rachmaninov, P.Tchaikovsky, M.Mussorgsky, I.Stravinsky, A.Scriabin, S.Prokofiev, K.Szymanowski, M.Balakirev,
M.Ravel, C.Debussy, F. Mendelssohn- Bartholdy, F.Chopin, S.Barber, I. Albeniz, M. Falla, E. Granados, A.Ginastera,
H. Villa-Lobos, N. Kapustin
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