

Application deadline – 22 IV 2025
January 1 - April 22
The 13th International Paderewski Piano Competition
Bydgoszcz, Poland, November 9th-23rd, 2025
THE APPLICATION DEADLINE
📆 April, 22nd 2025
Please fill in the application form (link)
The Competition is open to pianists of all nationalities, born between 1993 and 2007.
To maintain equity in the judging process, the following pianists are barred from the Competition:
- pianists who over the last three years (since October 1st, 2022) were regular students of a Juror in any school or academy of music,
- pianists who over the last three years (since October 1st, 2022) took additional private classes with a Juror,
- pianists who are Juror ‘s relatives.
The above restrictions shall not apply to pianists who attended sporadically masterclasses held by a Juror, also online. The term ‘sporadic’ means one or two classes annually, which does not designate the competitor a “regular student” of the Juror.
13th International Paderewski Piano Competition
Paderewski Music Association in Bydgoszcz
PARTNERS:
The Paderewski Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz
The Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music in Bydgoszcz
THE 13rd INTERNATIONAL PADEREWSKI PIANO COMPETITION IS CO-FINANCED BY:
the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of Republic of Poland from the Fund of the Promotion of Culture – a State purpose–specific Fund, as part of the “Music” program, implemented by the National Institute of Music and Dance
City of Bydgoszcz
MAIN PARTNER: