Born on 15 December 1997. He is a graduate of the Curtis Institute. He won first prize in the Leeds International Piano Competition in 2018. He has performed with the Boston, London, Chicago, Tokyo, Finnish Radio and Shanghai symphony orchestras, as well as the Los Angeles, Oslo, Luxembourg, Stockholm and Warsaw philharmonic orchestras, among others. He has given recitals at the Kölner Philharmonie, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Elbphilharmonie, Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, Davies Symphony Hall, Warsaw Philharmonic, Seoul Arts Centre and Bozar Brussels. He has appeared at festivals in La Roque d’Anthéron, Warsaw, Aspen, Los Angeles, Duszniki and Valldemossa. He has released two albums on the Warner Classics label, recording works by Schubert, Chopin, Schumann and Brahms.

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Winner's Recital
Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukukoka, Kumamoto

Kevin Born on 7 March 2005, he received private instruction from Colleen Athparia, Krzysztof Jabłoński and Marilyn Engle, and currently studies with Arie Vardi at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover. He won the Artur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv (2023) and the Concours de Genève (2022). He has performed at Carnegie Hall, London’s St John’s Smith Square, and festivals including La Roque-d’Anthéron, Duszniki-Zdrój, ‘Chopin and His Europe’ and the Oxford Piano Festival. Since debuting with the Abbotsford Youth Orchestra, he has regularly performed with ensembles such as the symphony orchestras of Edmonton and Taipei, philharmonic orchestras of Calgary and Warsaw, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and Hungarian National Orchestra.

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Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukukoka, Kumamoto

Born on 3 February 1999, she studied with Dang Thai Son at the New England Conservatory. She has won first prize in international piano competitions: the Rosalyn Tureck Bach in New York City (2010), at Princeton (2020) and in Ferrol (Spain, 2022). In 2023 she won sixth prize in the Busoni Competition in Bolzano. She made her solo recital debut aged 13 at the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing. She has performed at Verizon Hall in Pennsylvania, Severance Hall in Cleveland, Steinway Hall in New York, and in Beijing, Shanghai and Taipei, appearing with the Philadelphia, Cleveland, New Jersey and Galicia symphony orchestras under such conductors as Jahja Ling and Xian Zhang. In chamber repertoire, she has performed with Meng-Chieh Liu, Roberto Díaz and Chamber Music Northwest.

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Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukukoka, Kumamoto

Born on 11 October 1995. She graduated with the highest distinction from the University of the Arts in Tokyo (GEIDAI) and in Berlin (UdK), where she completed her Master’s studies with Klaus Hellwig. In 2022 she received the Steinway Prize in Berlin. She has been runner-up in international piano competitions, including the Maria Canals in Barcelona (2016), the Gian Battista Viotti in Vercelli, Italy (2017), the Ferruccio Busoni in Bolzano (2019), and the Artur Rubinstein in Tel Aviv (2021). In 2025 she became a laureate of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels. She has performed in many European countries, including Poland (Chopin Festival in Duszniki-Zdrój), Czechia (Dvořák Hall of Prague’s Rudolfinum), Austria, Germany, Israel, Serbia and Italy, as well as in Japan, Korea and the US.

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Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukukoka, Kumamoto

Born on 9 April 2000, he studied under prof. Paweł Zawadzki in Wrocław and Konstantin Scherbakov in Zurich and has also studied with Nikolai Demidenko. Runner-up in the Hilton Head International Piano Competition (2025), he has twice won the National Fryderyk Chopin Competition in Warsaw and also received the Professor Zbigniew Drzewiecki Prize in the 18th Chopin Competition. In 2024 he won the Texas Piano Concerto Competition and the Schenk Competition in Switzerland, receiving all the special awards. He has performed at prestigious venues such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Salle Cortot in Paris, Sala São Paulo, National Forum of Music in Wrocław, Warsaw Philharmonic and Symphony Hall in Osaka. He has worked with distinguished conductors, including Howard Shelley, Carlos Miguel Prieto, Andrzej Boreyko and Marek Pijarowski. He has recorded two albums for the Fryderyk Chopin Institute.

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Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukukoka, Kumamoto

Born on 12 April 2001, he began studying with Ng Chong Lim and is now continuing his education with Eldar Nebolsin at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He has been tutored by the likes of Elisabeth Leonskaja, Natalia Trull and Boris Berman. His first competition success was winning the International Taipei Maestro Piano Festival in 2019. He later won sixth prize in the Singapore International Piano Competition (2020) and first prize in the International Robert Schumann Competition (2024). He has received the Susanne Scholten Foundation’s Maurice Ravel Piano Prize, a scholarship from the Clavarte Foundation of Switzerland and the Lucia-Loeser Scholarship funded by his university.

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Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukukoka, Kumamoto

Born on 13 May 2001, he studied at the Curtis Institute of Music and is currently continuing his education at the Juilliard School under the guidance of Robert McDonald. His previous teachers were Alexander Korsantia and Paul Wirth. Winner of the National Chopin Competition in Miami (2025), where he also received the mazurka and sonata prizes, he also won second prize in the Midwest International Piano Competition (2014) and was a semi-finalist in the Cleveland International Piano Competition (2015), where he received the Bach prize. He has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Southeast Iowa Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra. He is a recipient of the Steinway Recording Project award, and participated in a concert tour that included a recital at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall.
William Yang is the 1st prize winner at the National Chopin Competition in Miami in 2025.

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Prize Winners' Gala Concert: Tokyo, Nagoya, Kawasaki, Osaka, Kyoto

Honorary Conductor of the Krakow Philharmonic. In the years 2013–2018, Antoni Wit was Artistic Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra in Pamplona. Previously, he was also director of such ensembles as the Pomeranian Philharmonic in Bydgoszcz (1974–1977), the Polish Radio and Television Orchestra and Choir in Krakow (1977–1983), the Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra in Katowice (1983–2000), and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Gran Canaria (1987–1992). Between 2002 and 2013, he was General and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic.
Antoni Wit studied conducting with Henryk Czyż and composing with Krzysztof Penderecki at the State Higher School of Music in Krakow, he also graduated in Law from the Jagiellonian University. He began his professional career as an assistant to Witold Rowicki at the Warsaw Philharmonic. After receiving Second Prize in the International Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition in Berlin in 1971, he became assistant to the patron of the competition.
He has performed in almost all the great musical centres of Europe, Asia, Australia and both Americas. In recent seasons, he has conducted Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Budapest Festival Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de Espana, Berner Symphonieorchester, China Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Filarmónica de Buenos Aires (Teatro Colón), Berliner Philharmoniker, Staatskapelle Dresden, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (at the Montreux festival), as well as orchestras in Lyon, Liege, Brussels, Sao Paulo, Bilbao, Barcelona and Sevilla.
Recordings of his performances have been included on over 200 albums, which have won numerous awards, among them a 2013 Grammy Award and six other nominations for this prize, Diapason d’Or and Grand Prix de la Nouvelle Académie du Disque, Cannes Classical Award, Choc du Monde de la Musique, and four Fryderyk Awards. The recordings feature music by Polish most outstanding composers, as well as works from an international repertoire – including critically acclaimed interpretations of pieces by Bedřich Smetana, Antonín Dvořák, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss.
Antoni Wit is one of only a few artists in the world whose albums have sold almost six million copies.
He was professor at the Chopin University of Music. His students were, among others, Krzysztof Urbański, Michał Dworzyński, Rafał Janiak, Maja Metelska, and Dawid Runtz, and his PhD students include Łukasz Borowicz, Jakub Chrenowicz and Wojciech Rodek. He has the title of honorary professor at the Chopin University of Music and Keimyung University (South Korea). In September 2025, he received an honorary doctorate from the Chopin University of Music.

The Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra gave its first concert on 5 November 1901 at the newly built Philharmonic Hall. The Orchestra was conducted by Emil Młynarski, the Philharmonic’s co founder, first Music Director and Principal Conductor, while the soloist was Ignacy Jan Paderewski. Even before World War I and in the interwar period, the Warsaw Philharmonic was the heart of Polish musical life and one of the most important musical institutions in Europe. In the first years after World War II, the Orchestra’s concerts would take place in theatres and sports halls. On 21 February 1955, a new building for the Philharmonic at Jasna Street was inaugurated, erected on the site of its former headquarters, which was destroyed during German airstrikes. On that day, the Warsaw Philharmonic received the title of a national institution.
Under the leadership of Witold Rowicki, the Orchestra regained its status as the leading symphony ensemble in Poland. In 1955–1958, it was Bohdan Wodiczko who held the position of Artistic Director, which he later handed over to Rowicki. In 1977, the position was taken over by Kazimierz Kord, and from 2002 to 2013, it was Antoni Wit who served as the Chief and Artistic Director of the Warsaw Philharmonic. From the 2013/2014 to the 2019/2020 season, the post of Artistic Director—responsible for the Ensembles’ development, the repertoire and selection of guest artists— was held by Jacek Kaspszyk, and he was followed by Andrzej Boreyko who was the Artistic Director until the end of the 2023/2024 season. As of 1 September 2024, Krzysztof Urbański took over this function.
Today, the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra enjoys worldwide popularity and acclaim. It has made over 150 concert tours on five continents, appearing in all of the world’s major concert halls and participated in many prestigious music events and international festivals. The Ensemble records for Polish Radio and TVP, as well as for Polish and foreign record labels and film companies. The Orchestra has frequently received prestigious awards, including a Grammy, Diapason d’Or, and Fryderyk award from the Polish Phonographic Academy. In 2016, the Orchestra also launched regular online streaming of selected concerts.