Following on from the three previous sold-out Festivals, the fourth annual Chopin Festival returns once more to the Polish Social and Cultural Centre POSK, in London, on Saturday the 25th October 2025.
Join us in this celebration of the unique piano genius Fryderyk Chopin.
Programme:
Saturday 25th October 2025
GALA CONCERT @ 5.30pm
Featuring –
Magdalena & Łukasz Filipczak
Alicja Kojder
Lucas Krupinski
Julia Łozowska
Andrzej Wierciński
Plus
Free Gala Printed Programme with Chopin Essays by
Prof. Alan Walker – The Death and Funeral of Fryderyk Chopin and its Aftermath
Dr. Aleksander Laskowski – International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Lady Rose Cholmondeley – Mysteries Surrounding Fryderyk Chopin
DISCUSSION @ 4pm
Reflections on the 2025 International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition
Lady Rose Cholmondeley (President, Chopin Society UK) and Professor John Rink (Professor of Music, University of Cambridge, and jury member since 2015), share their impressions of the 19th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition, held in Warsaw from 2 to 21 October 2025
CHOPIN JAZZ open 8.30 pm, artist on stage at 9 pm
Steve Ellery Project
EXHIBITION 21 – 25 October
” Chopin in Posters „
From the Kraków Collection of Krzysztof Dydo – POSK Gallery
Curated by Dobrosława Platt of the POSK Library
Tickets at EVENTBRITE
The Chopin Festival is a joint collaboration between The Relief Society For Poles Trust (Charity No. 327128) & The Polish Social & Cultural Centre POSK (Charity No 236745) and is produced by Janusz Sikora-Sikorski KC*SG
Chopin Festival Honorary Committee
Lady Rose Cholmondeley President & Co-Chairman The Chopin Society UK
Artur Szklener Director of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Poland
Ewa Sławińska-Dahlig Director General of the Fryderyk Chopin Society in Poland
Piotr Wilczek Ambassador of Poland to the Court of St. James’s
Professor John Rink Professor of Musical Performance Studies in the Cambridge Faculty of Music
Professor Norman Davies Historian, Writer
Monsignor Bogdan Kołodziej Rector of the Polish Catholic Mission in England and Wales
British Poles is the media patron of the Festival.
WHEN: Saturday, 25 October 2025, 3.30pm
WHERE: Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK, Sala Teatralna, 238-246 King Street, London W6 0RF
TICKETS: here
