Chopin 2010 – Events Celebrating the 200th Anniversary

Chopin 2010 – Celebrating the 200th Anniversary Around the World!
Extensive information can be found on the official website available in Polish, English, French to this day and soon in Japanese and Chinese.

Special Birthday Concerts is the first of the three key highlights of the Chopin Year. Held by the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw, the concerts series spans between the two alleged dates of Chopin’s birth: 22nd February and 1st March. Celebrating the composer’s bicentenary, Warsaw gathers the absolute crème de la crème of the world’s pianists, including: Daniel Barenboim, Piotr Anderszewski, Leif Ove Andsnes, Rafał Blechacz (who is opening the event), Dang Thai Son, Evgeny Kissin, Garrick Ohlsson, Janusz Olejniczak, Murray Perahia, Ivo Pogorelić and Yundi Li.
The pianists are accompanied by Frans Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra under Antoni Wit.

Read more:
Chopin 2010 – website
Chopin 2010 news at TVP