Piano Concerto Festival

The 6th Piano Concerto Festival continues the tradition of excellence established in previous editions, gathering over 60 talented pianists from around the world for a week of masterclasses, rehearsals, and public performances with orchestra.

Hosted in Paris, the festival offers young and developing pianists the opportunity to perform one movement of a piano concerto with a professional orchestra of approximately 37 musicians. The festival is open to piano students of all ages, with a basic video selection process. 

Each participant will receive:

• 2 individual masterclasses with internationally acclaimed faculty
• 40 minutes of orchestra rehearsal and performance
• A professional recording by world class music producer Mr Chris Craker

--- Faculty: Joanna Ting, Christopher McKiggan, An Ning, Lorenzo Pone, Congyu Wang, Nicolas Bringuer, Istvan Szekely, Rixiang Huang, Poom Prommachart, Gülsin Onay, Yen Chun Chieh, Paolo Scafarella, and Adam Gyorgy.

--- Participants are encouraged to choose one movement from any piano concerto written for chamber or symphonic orchestra

• Johann Sebastian Bach – Keyboard Concertos
• Joseph Haydn – Piano Concerto in D major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Piano Concertos (K. 175–595)
• Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5
• Frédéric Chopin – Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11; No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
• Robert Schumann – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
• Franz Liszt – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Totentanz
• Felix Mendelssohn – Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25; No. 2 in D minor, Op. 40
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor, Op. 23
• Sergei Rachmaninoff – Piano Concerto Nos. 1–4
• Camille Saint-Saëns – Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 5
• Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16
• Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concertos Nos. 1 - 3

--- Other concertos written for standard orchestra may be considered upon faculty approval