Fryderyk Chopin Institute manuscripts, edited by Zofia Chechlińska. The Institute is the organizer of the five-yearly International Chopin Piano Competition. It also runs the "Young Talents" programme to encourage young Polish pianists. The Institute is also organizing a festival "Chopin and his Europe" since 2005. It presents European music in the context of its links with the life and work of Chopin. One of the objectives of the festival programme is historical performance - presenting works as they were originally heard, on period instruments. The festival is organised in collaboration with the Warsaw Philharmonic, Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera and Polish Radio
Chopin Theatre Chopin Theatre Chopin Theatre is an independent, for-profit arts center located across the Polish Triangle in Chicago's Wicker Park, considered to be one of Chicago's more artistic communities. Founded in 1990, Chopin Theatre has grown into one of America's most active arts centers, presenting, producing or co-producing over 500 theater, music, film, literary and social events each year. Chopin Theatre is privately held and operates without public funding. Chopin Theatre has produced over 120 of its own productions, mostly Eastern and Central European. It has hosted performers from each American state and from over 40 countries. It produced I-Fest, an