The Vancouver Chopin Society has announced some big names in the piano world for its 20th-anniversary season.

South Korean Seong-Jin Cho, gold medallist at 2015’s International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw, joins the 2017-18 roster with his Vancouver debut (November 12 at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts). Janusz Olejniczak, the famed keyboardist on the soundtrack of the popular 2002 movie The Pianist, will perform Chopin on both a historic instrument and a modern one (February 2 and 3, 2018, at Christ Church Cathedral). Elsewhere, Maria Pomianowska and her folk band (in two shows on October 14 at the Vancouver Playhouse) make their first appearance in North America, showing the influence of folk music on Chopin’s compositions, and joining other musicians to imagine how Chopin’s songs might have evolved if he’d moved to present-day Paris. There’s more; info is at chopinsociety.org/.