Poland’s national pavilion is the work of the prominent Slovak-born Polish designer Boris Kudlicka and Jurek Jagoda. It combines the traditional black colour of the piano with Polish national colours – white and red. Poland’s top labels will promote their recordings of Chopin’s music and a MIDEM Classical Award will presented for the best Chopin recording.

A gala ceremony on 26 January, co-organised by the National Chopin Institute in Warsaw, will be graced by a concert of Sinfonietta Cracovia under the renowned Polish conductor Jacek Kaspszyk, with the 14 year-old Polish-born Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki as a soloist.

On 1 March 2010 Poland and the whole musical world will mark the bicentenary of the birth of Chopin.