PROGRAMME 2026
Geneva Chopin Festival
from 4 to 13 october 2026
For the 29th Chopin Festival, exceptional performers and outstanding Chopin chamber musicians from a variety of backgrounds will present Chopin’s masterpieces.
You can savour Chopin’s tender, passionate and noble music from 4 to 13 October 2026 in Geneva’s beautiful concert halls.
OPENING CONCERT
Sunday 4 October at 5 pm
Auditorium Ansermet
PAWEŁ WAKARECY piano
MARCIN ZDUNIK cello
QUINTETTE ÉPHÉMÈRE :
OLIVIA VILMART-JACOBSON violin
ELSA-CAMILLE SAPIN violin
SARAH CHENAF viola
FLORESTAN DARBELLAY cello
SAMUELE SCIANCALEPORE double bass
* * *
CHOPIN – ZDUNIK
Improvisations for solo cello
Mazurka Op. 24 No. 1 in G minor
Mazurka Op. 33 No. 2 in D major
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Concerto Op. 21 in F minor with quintet
Maestoso
Larghetto
Allegro vivace
––– Intermission –––
CHOPIN – ZDUNIK
Arrangements for cello and piano
Etude Op. 25 No. 7 in C-sharp minor
By Alexander Glazunov
Arrangements by Marcin Zdunik
Prelude Op. 28 No. 10 in C-sharp minor
Lento con gran espressione, posthumous, in C-sharp minor
Waltz Op. 64 No. 2 in C-sharp minor
Waltz Op. 34 No. 2 in A minor
Four Mazurkas Op. 68
In C major – in A minor – in F major – in F minor
Four Preludes, Op. 28
In A minor – in G major – in E minor – in B minor
FRYDERYK CHOPIN
Introduction and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 3 in C major
PAWEŁ WAKARECY
MARCIN ZDUNIK
QUINTETTE ÉPHÉMÈRE
OLIVIA VILMART-JACOBSON
violin
ELSA-CAMILLE SAPIN
violin
SARAH CHENAF
viola
FLORESTAN DARBELLAY
cello
SAMUELE SCIANCALEPORE double bass
PIANO RECITAL
Thursday 8 October at 8 pm
Collonge-Bellerive Town Hall, Salle Willy Buard
MERTOL DEMIRELLI
* * *
Etude in A flat major, Op. 25 No. 1
Impromptu in A flat major, Op. 29
Etude in C minor, Op. 10 No. 12
Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48 No. 1
Etude in F minor, Op. 25 No. 2
Ballade in F minor, Op. 52
Impromptu-Fantasy in C-sharp minor, Op. 66
Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op. 26 No. 1
––– Intermission –––
Waltz in B minor, Op. 69 No. 2
Sonata in B minor, Op. 58
Allegro maestoso
Scherzo. Molto vivace
Largo
Finale. Presto non tanto
MERTOL DEMIRELLI
PIANO RECITAL
Friday 9 October at 8 pm
Theatre Les Salons
ADAM KAŁDUŃSKI
ADAM KAŁDUŃSKI
* * *
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 63 No. 2
Ballade in F major, Op. 38
Four Mazurkas, Op. 41
in E minor
in B major
in A flat major
in C sharp minor
Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35
Grave - Doppio movimento
Scherzo
Marche
Finale. Presto
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 68 No. 4
Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major, Op. 61
PIANO RECITAL
Sunday 11 October at 5 pm
Salle des Nations – Hotel des Bergues
KRZYSZTOF WIERCIŃSKI
* * *
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22
Rondo in C minor, Op. 1
Four Mazurkas, Op. 33
In G sharp minor
In D major
In C major
In B minor
Waltz in C-sharp minor, Op. 62 No. 2
Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31
––– Intermission –––
Nocturne in B flat major, Op. 62 No. 1
Ballade in A flat major, Op. 47
Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 45
Four Preludes, Op. 28
In D flat major
In C minor
In G minor
In D minor
Polonaise in A flat major, Op. 53
KRZYSZTOF WIERCIŃSKI
CLOSING CONCERT
Tuesday 13 October at 8 pm
Conservatoire de Musique Genève – Salle Franz Liszt
MATEUSZ KRZYŻOWSKI
* * *
Polonaise in F sharp minor, Op. 44
Two Nocturnes, Op. 48
In C minor – in F sharp minor
Three Mazurkas, Op. 56
In B major – in C major – in C minor
Polonaise in A flat major, Op. 53
––– Intermission –––
Ballade in G minor, Op. 23
Ballade in F major, Op. 38
Ballade in A flat major, Op. 47
Ballade in F minor, Op. 52
MATEUSZ KRZYŻOWSKI
