The tour comprises nine concerts in seven cities including Tokyo, Yokohama and Seoul.
In all of these venues, the orchestra will be conducted by its Music Director Andrzej Boreyko, while five highly acclaimed pianists will appear as soloists in Chopin’s Piano Concertos and Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A minor.
The five pianists are Rafał Blechacz (First Prize winner of the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw), Bruce Liu (First Prize winner of the 2021 competition), Michie Koyama (Fourth Prize winner of the 1985 competition), Masaya Kamei (First Prize winner of the 2022 Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud Competition in Paris), and Yekwon Sunwoo (First Prize winner of the 2017 Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas).
The programme of the concerts also includes Witold Lutosławski’s Little Suite, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Brahms’ Second Symphony.
The Warsaw Philharmonic’s previous tour of Japan was in the autumn of 2019.
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