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PIANO COMPETITION 2025

The Emmanuel Durlet Fund is proud to announce the "Emmanuel Durlet International Piano Competition 2025" which will take place from Friday 4 April to 6 April 2025 at St. Paul's Church.

The many registrations are a great surprise!

Candidates from all over the world have applied: Japan, Ecuador, Russia, Bulgaria, Germany, Belgium, Austria, England, Greece, USA...

The last "International Piano Competition Emmanuel Durlet" dates back to 2005.

Thanks to your enthusiasm, our wonderful recitals and our new Board of Directors, we are able to give this tradition a new life.

Let us not forget the sweet presence of Andrea Durlet, daughter of the composer, who, at the young age of 89, still tirelessly defends and protects her father's work.

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You can experience the semi-finals live on Friday 4 April from 09:30. Entrance €16,--. The price for attending the final will be announced at a later date.

Would you like to make a reservation now? You can do so via this link.More information will follow soon on this page.

The following candidates have been selected (in alphabetical order) to compete in the semi-finals:

Arai Moeka, Japan
Declercq Alexander, Belgium
Dusmuratove Anna, Russian Federation
Galicki Andrzej, Poland
HongboZhao, China
Huseinzoda Jannat, Tajikistan
Hwang Hyunsu, Republic of Korea
Leung Edward, USA
NG Yao,De Vincent, Malaysia
Ormaza Vera Aaron, Ecuador
Piperkos Ioannis, Greece
Popp Simon, Germany
Sakurako Kita, Japan
Shi Ruiqi, China
Wang Xinchen, China
Westman Tomer, Israel

The 15 semi-finalists will each play for a maximum of 30 minutes on the beautiful restored Bluthner grand piano which belonged to Emmanuel Durlet. Part of the free program will be Adagio in G (4 minutes) by J.H. Fiocco in the version of Emmanuel Durlet.

A copy of the sheet music of Adagio in G can be found here.