Chopin in Szczecin

In September 2025, the Philharmonic announced ticket sales for the entire 2025/26 season.

We had already purchased tickets for the recitals of the future laureates of the 19th Chopin Competition. For November 2025 and March 2026!

On November 14th, I wrote here about the concert by Kevin Chen, winner of the 2nd Prize at the 19th Chopin Competition.

And now we're finally in March!

Tianyao Lyu arrived in Szczecin – winner of the 4th Prize and the special award for the best concerto performance at the Competition.

Tianyao Lyu was born on October 21, 2008, in China. She is currently a student of Katarzyna Popowa-Zydroń at the Ignacy Jan Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznań. (...) She is a laureate of numerous national and international piano competitions, including 1st Prize at the 19th International Piano Competition in Ettlingen (2024), 1st Prize and the Grand Prix at the 31st International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia (2024). (…)

The Szczecin Philharmonic website states, among other things:

(…) Tianyao Lyu is already considered one of the most interesting personalities of the young generation of pianists. (…)

The evening's program draws on the repertoire that captivated listeners during the competition – full of lyricism, virtuosity, and subtle musical narrative.

The Szczecin recital is not only an opportunity to encounter an exceptional talent, but also to hear Chopin's music in an interpretation that is already gaining recognition worldwide. The enormous interest in the recital only confirms that it is one of the most eagerly anticipated concerts of the season.

I cannot describe the immense impressions of the recital, because everything has already been written about Chopin, and the young artist is also known to be a rising star of the piano…

I just want to say that the following pieces made the greatest impression on me:

Nocturne in B major and Variations Op. 2 on a theme from Mozart's opera (details in the program photo).

Adrian commented that when the artist stopped moving her fingers across the keyboard, the music continued!

I, on the other hand, felt like I could hear an entire orchestra in some of the pieces!

It was worth waiting many months for such an artistic event!