Washington International Piano Festival (WIPF) – Past Concerts

Franz Liszt — "VI. Vallee D'Obermann" from Années de pèlerinage ("Years of Pilgrimage") I, S. 160
Frédéric Chopin — Polonaise in C-sharp minor, Op. 26, No. 1
Frédéric Chopin — Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Johannes Brahms — Klavierstucke (Six Pieces for Piano), Op. 118 (Nos. 1-3)
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Prelude in D major, Op. 23, No. 4
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Elégie, Op. 3, No. 1
Alexander Scriabin — Piano Sonata No. 2 in G-sharp minor, Op. 19 "Sonata-Fantasy"

Frédéric Chopin — Selected works

The Washington International Piano Festival (WIPF) returns to the Kennedy Center for solo and group performances by selected 2024 WIPF part…

Program includes works by Karol Szymanowski, Claude Debussy, Alexander Scriabin, Sergei Prokofiev, Witold Lutosławski, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, and Camille Saint-Saëns.

Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 (Misha Tumanov, piano)
Franz Liszt — Nuages gris (Trübe Wolken), S.199 (Martin Labazevitch, piano)
Franz Liszt — "Funérailles" from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 (Martin Labazevitch, piano)
Franz Liszt — Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178 (Martin Labazevitch, piano)

Mikhail Glinka — Valse-Fantasie (arr. Sergei Liapunov for piano, four hands)
Mikhail Pletnev / Sergei Prokofiev — Suite for Two Pianos from Prokofiev's Cinderella, Op. 87
Dmitri Shostakovich — Concertino for Two Pianos in A minor, Op. 94
George Gershwin / Percy Grainger — Fantasy on Themes from Porgy and Bess

Pianist Brian Ganz teaches selected students in an open master class as part of the 14th Washington International Piano Festival.

Frédéric Chopin — Four Mazurkas, Op. 68
Franz Schubert — Fantasia in F minor for piano four hands, Op. posth. 103, D. 940
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka in B-flat major, Op. 7, No. 1
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka in B minor, Op. 33, No. 4
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka in A-flat, Op. 24, No. 3
Frédéric Chopin — Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 30, No. 4
Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 "Appassionata"

Closing performance of the 2023 Washington International Piano Festival.

Ceremony and performance featuring winners of the 7th Catholic University of America Piano Competition.

Program includes works by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, Isaac Albéniz, Claude Debussy, Leonard Bernstein, and Frédéric Chopin.

Franz Liszt — Piano Sonata in B minor, S. 178

Washington International Piano Festival presents the final round of the 8th Catholic University of America Competition.

Frédéric Chopin — Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Frédéric Chopin — Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38
Frédéric Chopin — Ballade No. 3 in A-flat major, Op. 47
Frédéric Chopin — Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Sergei Rachmaninoff — 6 Morceaux, Op. 11
George Gershwin — Rhapsody in Blue (performed by Murray McLachlan & Kathryn Page)

Program includes works by Dmitri Shostakovich, Johann Sebastian Bach, Franz Liszt, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Modest Mussorgsky, and Rodion Shchedrin.

Robert Schumann — Bilder aus Osten ("Pictures from the East"), Op. 66
Johannes Brahms — Variations on a Theme by Robert Schumann, Op. 23
Pedro Macedo Camacho — Integration I for two pianos
Benjamin Britten — Mazurka elegiaca for Two Pianos, Op. 23, No. 2
Arnold Bax — Sonata for Two Pianos