The Sixth Canadian Chopin Piano Competitors was held from January 9 to 13, 2025 at Toronto’s Telus Centre for Performing Arts. The placement, with performances on the Royal Conservatory’s Koerner Corridor and Mazzoleni Live performance Corridor, was auspicious, in that eight of the 9 winners have been college students or alumni from The Glenn Gould Faculty, The Taylor Academy and the RCM Certificates Program.
“Congratulations to our college students and alumni for his or her spectacular achievements finally night time’s competitors. The calibre of efficiency was extremely excessive and we’re so happy with all who will likely be representing Canada on the upcoming Chopin competitors in Poland. My congratulations as properly to the Canadian Chopin Society who placed on a spectacular competitors at The Royal Conservatory,” stated Alexander Brose, Michael and Sonja Koerner President & CEO, The Royal Conservatory of Music in a press release.
The Canadian Chopin Piano Competitors
The Canadian Chopin Piano competitors is held each 5 years to coincide with the Worldwide F. Chopin Piano Competitors, which is held in Warsaw, Poland.
Younger Canadian pianists can compete in one in every of three divisions, Junior, Intermediate or Senior, and carry out works by the long-lasting composer in entrance of a jury made up of internationally famend pianists.
For the highest three winners within the Senior division, there’s an additional perk: they’ll get funding for journey bills to Poland to take part within the Preliminary Spherical of the nineteenth Worldwide Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competitors. They might even be accepted instantly into the Preliminary Spherical, bypassing screening by the choice committee.
Prize Winners
Three RCM Certificates Program college students prevailed within the Junior Division, together with 1st Prize to Aidan Zhou (Richmond Hill, ON), 2nd Prize to Ethan Wang (Calgary, AB), and third prize to Charlotte Florence Deng (Delta, BC).
Taylor Academy college students Kenneth Chen and Xian Bao took First and Second Prize, respectively, within the Intermediate division, with Charlotte Giraudeau, ARCT ’22, snagging third Prize.
Eric Guo, who earned a Bachelor’s diploma from the Glenn Gould Faculty, the place he’s at present within the Artist Diploma Program (‘26), took third Prize within the Senior Division, with Athena Deng, ARCT ’22, taking 2nd Prize.
Vancouver pianist Ryan Wang, just lately named the BBC Younger Musician of 2024, took 1st Prize within the Senior Division.
The nineteenth annual Chopin Worldwide Piano Competitors takes place in Warsaw, Poland from October 2 to 23, 2025. Can we count on to see one other younger Canadian take the rostrum once more….?
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Anya Wassenberg is a Toronto Metropolis Editor at Ludwig Van. She is an skilled freelance author, blogger and writing teacher.
