81st Duszniki Zdrój International Chopin Festival , Poland. 7 - 15 August 2026. In addition, links to detailed reviews of fifteen past Duszniki Festival posts (2010 - 2025)


Duszniki Zdrój formerly Bad Reinerz in Silesia


Read and remember how fortunate we are to be here in the beautiful, natural rural surroundings of Duszniki Zdrój in Poland. In this Elysium we continue the intense enjoyment of this creative side of the coin of human nature. 


World-renowned musicians and pianists have been assembled to play 

 

81st Duszniki-Zdrój International Chopin Festival 

7-15 August 2026

The longest-running international piano festival in the world with great traditions

Program

Friday 7.08.2026 8:00 PM

Inaugural concert

The NFM Wrocław Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Paweł Kapuła

Piotr ALEXEWICZ

Winner of the 5th Prize at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

Tianyao LYU

Winner of the 4th Prize at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2025)

Saturday  8.08.2026 4:00 PM

Yehuda PROKOPOWICZ

Participant in the 19th International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw; 

Winner of the Polish Radio Special Prize for the best performance of mazurkas; winner of the Polityka Passport Award 2025 in the Readers’ Passport category

8:00 PM

Alexander GAVRYLYUK

Gold Medal winner at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv (2005); Artist-in-Residence at Wigmore Hall in London in the 2023/24 season

Sunday 9.08.2026 4:00 PM

Jakub KUSZLIK

Winner of the 4th Prize and the Special Prize for the best performance of mazurkas at the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2021)

8:00 PM

Shiori KUWAHARA

Laureate of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition in Brussels (2025); winner of the 4th Prize at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw

Monday 10.08.2026 4:00 PM

Saehyun KIM

Winner of the 1st Prize at the Marguerite Long–Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris (2025)

8:00 PM

Alexander KOBRIN

Winner of the 3rd Prize at the 14th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2000)

Tuesday 11.08.2026 4:00 PM

Hyo LEE

Winner of the 3rd Prize at the 12th International Competition Arthur Rubinstein in Memoriam, Bydgoszcz (2021)

Hyuk LEE

Finalist of the 18th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2021)

9:00 PM

NOKTURN

Host: Marcin MAJCHROWSKI

Wednesday 12.08.2026 4:00 PM

Tomoharu USHIDA

Second Prize Laureate of the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition

Recipient of the Audience Prize at the Leeds International Piano Competition

Participant in the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2025)

8:00 PM

Eric LU

Winner of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2025)

Thursday 13.08.2026 4:00 PM

David KHRIKULI

Winner of the 1st Prize at the International Piano Competition in Cantù (Italy, 2024); also winner and Audience Prize recipient at the International Piano Competition in Vigo (Spain, 2024)

8:00 PM

Kevin CHEN

Winner of the 1st Prize at the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv; the Geneva International Music Competition (2022); and the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Budapest (2021).

Winner of the 2nd Prize at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2025)

Friday 14.08.2026 4:00 PM

Nikola MEEUWESEN

Winner of the 1st Prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels (2025)

8:00 PM

Zitong WANG

Winner of the 3rd Prize at the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2025)

Saturday 15.08.2025       4:00 PM

Hyunjin ROH

Winner of the 1st Prize at the 13th International Ignacy Jan Paderewski Piano Competition in Bydgoszcz (2025)

8:00 PM

Final concert

Yulianna AVDEEVA

Winner of the 16th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2010)

Jubilee 25th National Piano Masterclass in Duszniki-Zdrój

7, 9, 10, 11 August 2026 – Prof. Alexander GAVRYLYUK

12–15 August 2026 – Prof. Alexander KOBRIN

The book of the festival in both English and Polish with detailed artists' biographies and detailed programmes plus interesting essays on Chopin and quotations from his letters will be soon  available to download 

Official Website: http://festival.pl/en/front-english/


The Chopin Manor where the recitals take place

Recital Reviews

Photographer: Szymon Korzuch

Profile of the Reviewer Michael Moran : https://en.gravatar.c atom/mjcmoran#pic-0 

Reviews will be posted in reverse order of live performance (latest recital first) to save  listeners the labour of scrolling down after each recital to read the latest review

Many people have mentioned that my reviews are, in the current mnemonic, TLTR (Too Long To Read). With some reluctance I shall try to reduce the length to accommodate reading on a mobile phone which seems to be the ubiquitous technology for much of life's activities in 2026. With my conviction of the prime importance of social, historical and creational context in assessing compositions and composers prior to the performer's interpretation, I will find this rather difficult but needs must I suppose.

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