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The five pianists performing in the evening session and the link to watch it:

www.youtube.com/live/yoaXumd...

Have a lovely Sunday evening 🎹🎵✨😌💖✨

#Chopin #piano #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

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Etap 2 Stage 2
Sesja Wieczorna
Evening Session
XIX Konkurs Chopinowski
Warsawa 2025
19th Chopin Competition
Warsaw 2025

17:00 Tomoharu Ushida (Japan);
17:55 Zitong Wang (China);
18:45 Yifan Wu (China);
19:55 Miki Yamagata (Japan);
20:45 William Yang (USA)

The word "Upcoming" is shown beside a ▶️ icon with a diagonal slant line over it on the lower right hand corner of the screen.

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Chopin Institute - 613 waiting - Scheduled for 12/10/2025, 16:00"

Time showing is in BST (British Summer Time timezone); actual time start is UTC +1 (5pm CET)

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#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes

12 Oct: Tall Man - Phantasm

"The Ghost in You" (The Psychedelic Furs)

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#MusicChallenge
#KillerTunes

11 Oct: Root Woman - Apostle

"Money" (Gladys Knight & The Pups)

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There are a few who would be past the required age range before the next competition in 2030. *sigh*

Good luck to all of them tonight. 👏👏👏🎹🎵✨

#Chopin #piano #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

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The results for the 3rd round starting on Tuesday, 14 October, will be announced after the evening session tonight. From 40 pianists in the 2nd round down to 20...I wouldn't want to be a judge 🤯 - each of the pianists was wonderful in their own way. 🎹🎵✨✨ 1/

#Chopin #classical #music

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Gabriele Strata 🇮🇹

The comment I left in the chat: "[...] a handsome pianist playing beautiful Chopin music - what more could you ask for?" 🥲🫶

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Gabriele Strata (Italy)
Steinway & Sons
F. Chopin - Prelude in A minor, Op. 28 No. 7

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I really haven't had the chance to watch the morning session today. I did get to watch at least 20 minutes of Miyu Shindo 🇯🇵 playing elegantly 🎹🎼🎵✨✨

#Chopin #piano #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

Miyu Shindo (Japan)
Steinway & Sons
F. Chopin - Prelude in G minor, Op. 28 No. 22

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Anthony Ratinov 🇺🇸

It is the intermission right now and Chopin Talk for the online and other media viewers/listeners.

#Chopin #piano #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

Anthony Ratinov (United States)
Steinway & Sons
F. Chopin - Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 29

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Hao Rao 🇨🇳

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Hao Rao (China)
Steinway & Sons
F. Chopin - Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60

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Yehuda Prokopowicz 🇵🇱

#Chopin #piano #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

Yehuda Prokopowicz (Poland)
Steinway & Sons
F. Chopin - Ballade in F major, Op. 38

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All participants in today's morning session are using one piano (Steinway & Sons) 🎹🎼🎵✨

Results of the 20 pianists to R3 at approx. 11pm CET

#Chopin #piano #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

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I love those songs, too 😌💕 will post them at some point, maybe in my personal 80s thread. 😅

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Good Sunday morning, #classical #music friends. Today is the 4th and final day of the 2nd round.

www.youtube.com/live/58_jNp7...

Let's enjoy another day of #Chopin music 🎹🎼🎵✨

#musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #12Oct2025

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#MusicChallenge
#Totentanz2025

12 Oct: "The Perfect Kiss" (New Order)

*I'd share the tour debut version, but the vid file is too large :(

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#MusicChallenge
#Totentanz2025

11 Oct: "Waiting for Death" (Candle Kid)

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#MusicChallenge
#20SongsByYear
#1986Music

Day 12: "A Kind of Magic" (Queen)

Queen - A Kind of Magic (Official Video Remastered)

YouTube video by Queen Official

youtu.be

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#MusicChallenge
#20SongsByYear
#1986Music

Day 11: "This Time Around" (Benjamin Orr)

Benjamin Orr - This Time Around

YouTube video by atsejam

youtu.be

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#MusicChallenge
#DavidsMonthofMusic

12 Oct: How, why or which in the title

"How Can I Fall?" (Breathe)

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#MusicChallenge
#DavidsMonthofMusic

11 Oct: With a non primary colour/shade in the title

"Pretty in Pink" (The Psychedelic Furs)

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Methodist Preacher's wife..👀

You do know that we're waiting to hear you sing, right? 😉

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Seldomly played, yet he captivated us online and the audience 🤯🎹🎼🎵✨✨✨✨✨ Piotr Pawlak 🇵🇱

#Chopin #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #11Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

See you tomorrow for the 4th and final day of the 2nd round. 🫶

Piotr Pawlak, representing Poland, playing Allegro de concert in A major, Op. 46 during the 19th Chopin International Piano Competition at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall, 11 October 2025 evening session.

A screenshot of a pair of hands playing the piano.

Image still/screenshot made possible by the Chopin Institute YouTube channel. They own the video. Thank you.

A screenshot of the pianist, Piotr Pawlak of Poland, after his resounding performance during the 19th Chopin International Piano Competition 2nd round at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall. He is seen here with a huge smile on his face, and the clapping emoji reactions on the Chopin Institute YouTube channel chat.

Image still/screenshot made possible by the Chopin Institute YouTube channel. They own the video. Thank you.

A screenshot of the Chopin Institute YouTube channel chat and the audience at the Warsaw Philharmonic Concert Hall after Piotr Pawlak's piano performance. Most of the faces and the chat names have been blurred out.

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😌💖✨✨✨ I can listen to him play this on repeat 🎹🎼🎵🎶💖

*he's the only one in the second round to choose to play this music piece

#Chopin #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #11Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

Pianist Piotr Pawlak beginning to play Fantasie Impromptu.

Piotr Pawlak (Poland)
Shigeru Kawai
F. Chopin - Fantasy-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66

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The only pianist who is playing Fantasie Impromptu 🤯👏👏👏
Piotr Pawlak 🇵🇱 #veryimpressed his performance so far IS amazing!

#Chopin #classical #music #musicsky #ChopinInstitute #19thInternationalFryderykChopinPianoCompetition #11Oct2025 #WarsawPhilharmonicConcertHall

Piotr Pawlak (Poland)
Shigeru Kawai
F. Chopin - Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante in E flat major, Op. 22

Image still/screenshot courtesy of the Chopin Institute YouTube channel. They own the video. Thank you.

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I'm on the live chat - ⚠️: lots of "wrong notes" police / people who think they know better than the judges 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

/quibble

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😞 I can't even begin to imagine how much piano lessons cost back then.

Understandable..I didn't continue with piano lessons due to the same reason.

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