Category  "Piano Talents"  (max 15 minutes) - up to 13 years old (before 14th birthday)

• Free program

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Category  "Young Prodigies" (max 20 minutes) - up to 16 years old (before 17th birthday)

• One Virtuoso piece 

• One F.Chopin or J.W. Krogulski piece

• One or more free compositions

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Category "Young Artists" (max 25 minutes) -up to 19 years old (before 20th birthday)

• One F. Chopin piece or One J.W. Krogulski piece

• One virtuosic piece by any composer

• One or more compositions freely chosen by the competitor.

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Category  "Piano Masters" - no age limit

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Preliminary Round​

• F.Chopin - Etude

• One etude by one of composers: F.Liszt, S.Rachmaninov, A.Scriabin, N.Kapustin, I.Stravinsky, S.Prokofiev, K.Szymanowski, W.Lutoslawski, G.Cziffra or G.Ligeti or G.Bizet/W.Horowitz  Carmen variations or F.Mendelssohn/F.Liszt/W.Horowitz Wedding March.

• One free piece up to 10 minutes

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Finale (40-45 minutes):

1. One  piece by F.Chopin or J.W. Krogulski (Krogulski prize* - to be considered Krogulski prize please present minimum one mazurka and one polonaise).

2. One composition of the list:

• F.Chopin: Andante Spianato and Grand Polonaise, op.22

• F.Chopin: Polonaise, op. 53 

• F.Chopin Polonaise, op.44

• F.Chopin: One Scherzo 

• F.Chopin: One Ballade

• F.Chopin: entire opus of Mazurkas. 

• F.Chopin Sonata, op.35

• F.Chopin Sonata op.58

• F.Chopin Fantasia, op.49

• F.Chopin Preludes (complete)

• E.Grieg Piano Sonata in E minor, op.7

• F.Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody 2,6,12,15 

• F.Liszt:Spanish Rhapsody

• F.Liszt: Mephisto Waltz I

• F.Liszt: Dante Sonata

• F.Liszt Sonata in B minor

• M.Balakirev: Islamey 

• S.Rachmaninov: II Sonata, op. 36 

• S.Rachmaninov: Corelli Variations

• M.Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition 

• S.Prokofiev: Sonata 2,3,6,7

• A.Scriabine: Sonata 2,5,9 

• I.Stravinsky: Petrouchka 

• A.Ginastera: Sonata, op. 22 

• A.Ginastera: Danzas Argentinas 

• M.Ravel: Scarbo 

• V.Horowitz: Any transcription

• G.Cziffra: any transcription

• R.Schumann: Etudes Symphoniques

• F.Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Variations Serieuses

• Comparable composition approved by the Artistic Director

   3. One or more compositions freely chosen by a competitor.