President of the jury : JEAN-YVES CLEMENT

Writer, editor, festival organizer

Poet, essayist, publisher, Jean-Yves Clément is also an organizer of festivals, among others in Nohant at George Sand (Festival Nohant-Chopin) and Châteauroux (Lisztomanias). He was the General Commissioner of the Year Liszt in France (2011).
J.-Y. Clément is also President of the Orchester Royal de Chambre de Wallonie.
Vice-president of Le Passeur Éditeur, music critic (Diapason), he is the author of several works published by Actes Sud (Liszt, Scriabine, Glenn Gould); he also published Les deux âmes de Frédéric Chopin, a vast poem Le Chant de toi and a collection of aphorisms De l’aube à midi (Cherche Midi). Le Retour de Majorque, Journal de Frédéric Chopin (Pierre-Guillaume de Roux) was published in 2020, then, in September 2021 Chopin et Liszt, la magnificence des contraires (Premières Loges).
He also gives recitals of his own written texts about music : Variations Chopin (aphorisms on the 24 Preludes of Chopin), Nuits de l’âme (21 poems on the 21 Nocturnes by Frédéric Chopin, ordered by Brigitte Engerer), Variations Glenn Gould (on Bach’s Goldberg Variations ), texts about The last seven words of Christ by Haydn, Via Crucis by Liszt, etc...
J.-Y. Clément is Commander of Arts and Letters.