The 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition / The HK Joy of Music Festival – 2025, presented by The Chopin Society of Hong Kong is firmly on its track !!! We are pleased to announce that the pre-selection round of the 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition has been successfully completed.

33 Quarter-finalists have been selected to participate in Round I – Quarterfinals of the Competition.

We are now pleased to welcome the following 33 Quarter-finalists of the 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition (in alphabetical order by surname):

QF	01	Ms BASKAKOVA Viktoriia
QF	02	Mr CECINO Elia
QF	03	Mr CHEN Ping Wang
QF	04	Mr DORONIN Aleksandr
QF	05	Mr FENG Caoyuan
QF	06	Ms GUO Siyu
QF	07	Ms GUO Yung Yung
QF	08	Mr HEN Yuval
QF	09	Mr HERMAN Harrison
QF	10	Mr HUANG Ron Maxim
QF	11	Mr JIANG Qifan
QF	12	Mr KAMPLET Nejc
QF	13	Mr KAN Mikhail
QF	14	Ms KANG Hyelee
QF	15	Mr KHACHIKYAN Konstantin
QF	16	Ms KIM Hyunji
QF	17	Mr KOZIN Ruben
QF	18	Mr LAU Shing Ho Alexander
QF	19	Ms LEE Shinyoung
QF	20	Mr LI He Dong
QF	21	Ms LIU Yongqiu
QF	22	Mr LONG Zhenyi
QF	23	Mr MAK Jonathan
QF	24	Ms MENG Helen
QF	25	Mr NAVARRO-SILBERSTEIN Jose
QF	26	Mr SHEN Zeyu
QF	27	Mr SKOMOROKHOV Vladimir
QF	28	Mr WONG Anson Ying Shun
QF	29	Mr WU Yifan
QF	30	Mr XIE Lingfei Stephan
QF	31	Mr YAU Jun-Tsiu Alexander
QF	32	Mr YE Zifan
QF	33	Ms YOONG Celestine Qian Yi

Participation in Round I – Quarterfinals of the competition, will be achieved by each of the contestants sending us a recording of their up to 70 minutes performances of a programme which each one of them will have selected (as directed) from a given list accompanying the application form and marked as: QUARTER-FINALS. See repertoire to choose from in ANNEX 2.
1st ROUND (Quarterfinals) video recordings to be received by our email (afreris@netvigator.com)
by the 15th June 2025.
Please, send your video recordings digitally, NOT BY POST (this can take a long time to arrive nowadays).

We would like to make the following clarifications for the quarter-finalists as they are preparing their video recordings to participate in Round I:
You can send previous recordings you might have of your performance of some of the pieces you are presenting to participate in Round I. Each piece should have been recorded as if you were presenting it in a recital. What we mean is that Editing is not accepted. The different pieces could, however, have been recorded at different times. You can repeat some of the pieces you sent us for the Preliminary Round, provided the pieces are listed in ANNEX 2.

Please, clearly mark the name of each piece and the timing of commencement in the video recording as well as its movements. This facilitates the work of our IT engineer who will be preparing the files that will be sent to each one of the 10 members of the Jury who will be selecting the 15 semi-finalists.

Once we receive the video recordings from the 33 quarter-finalists which, we repeat, should be received by our email (afreris@netvigator.com) by the 15th of June 2025, our IT engineer will then upload all the recordings onto a “cloud” and a password will be given to each of the 10 members of the Jury for them to listen to all the recordings at their own pace.

The Members of the Jury will be given a date by which each one of them has to return to us a list of his/her choice of 15 contestants who will be going on to Round II (semi-finals) of the Competition. The Chairman and the Executive Secretary of the Society, administrative, non-voting members of the Panel of the Jury, will be in charge of processing the results of the voting of the members of the Jury. Nobody else, apart from the Chairman and the Executive Secretary of the Society, will know the voting results received from each individual member of the Jury.

1st August 2025 – Announcing the 15 Contestants (Semi-finalists) who will be participating in Round II – Semi-finals of the Competition.
The 15 Semi finalists of the 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition will be publicly announced in the official Website of our Competition: www.chopinsocietyhk.org as soon as possible after the 1st Aug 2025, and after having contacted the Contestants and the Members of the Jury individually to let them know of the results of Round I – Quarterfinals.

At this point, we are pleased and honored to announce and welcome the following 10 Members of the Jury of the 7th Hong Kong International Piano Competition: (in alphabetical order by surname):

Please, visit the website of the competition/festival at www.chopinsocietyhk.org to keep reading about the schedule and programmes of this magnificent event.