November 15^th - 24^th, 2009, Mr. Henryk Martenka, the Director of the International Paderewski Piano Competition (IPPC) visited Japan, the VII International Piano Competition in Hamamatsu, the one of the biggest and important piano competitions on the world.

The Hamamatsu Competition has 13 world famous Jurors, 4 of them is or was Paderewski Competition’s Jurors. Mr. Martenka has informed them about preselection in 8 cities all over the world to the Competition, November 2010 and about Paderewski Piano Academy in August 2010.

The Director Martenka with Prof. Paleczny (The Artistic Director of the Paderewski Competition) invite the best participants of the Semi-Final and Final to the preliminary auditions of the Paderewski Competition.