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        video 2025
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        video 2025
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Category ARTIST- Video selection results

List of candidates selected to compete live
in the semi-final on July 2 and 3, 2025 in Cagnes-sur-Mer.

Jury :

Artur Pizarro
Artur Pizarro

Chairman of the Jury
Portugal

Nicolas Bringuier, international pianist, is the Artistic Director of the Samson François International Piano Competition.
Nicolas Bringuier

France

Lorenzo Di Bella

Italy

Magdalena HIRSZ
Magdalena Hirsz

Poland

Diana Ketler

United Kingdom

Pierre Réach

France

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Samson François, the inspiration behind the International Piano Competition that bears his name in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France

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