Hastings International Piano, the charity responsible for the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and the Hastings International Piano Festival is delighted to announce a one-day Digital Festival on Friday 13th November from 2-8pm. The festival supported by Arts Council England and in association with our new partner Steinway and Sons is an online initiative designed […]

Hastings International Piano, the charity responsible for the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and the Hastings International Piano Festival is delighted to announce a new partnership with iconic piano maker Steinway & Sons for the 2021 Concerto Competition in the historic town on England’s South Coast. The Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition is an internationally […]

The fourteenth in our series is 2014 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition Winner Taek Gi Lee. Join us this Friday 19th June at 7pm GMT+1 on our WEBSITE on our FACEBOOK page. Programme:S. Rachmaninoff- Etude Op.39, No.3S. Prokofiev- Piano Sonata No.7 Taek Gi Lee was born in Seoul in 1996. He began his piano study […]

Hastings International Piano, the charity responsible for the Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition and the Hastings International Piano Festival is delighted to announce that Professor Vanessa Latarche – Head of Keyboard at the Royal College of Music in London, has been appointed as the President of the Jury for the 2021 competition. The Hastings International […]

The sixth in our series is 2019 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition Prizewinner Sylvia Jiang. Friday 24th April at 7pm GMT+1 on our FACEBOOK page or our WEBSITE Programme:Haydn – Fantasia in C majorLiszt – Petrarch Sonnet 104Prokofiev – Toccata, Op.11 Sylvia Jiang is a young pianist from New Zealand currently studying at the Juilliard […]

Join us at 7pm GMT+1 for a concert from our 2019 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition winner Fumiya Koido. ProgrammeChopin Etude Op10-11Haydn Sonata No.33 in C minor 1st movScriabin Sonata No.3 Op.23 1st mov Fumiya Koido was born in Kamaishi, Japan in 1995. In 2014, he entered the Toho University of Music and won the […]

The Inaugural Hastings International Piano Festival is proud to have won Arts Council funding to support their ambitious 2020 youth engagement offers, with further support offered by the Magdalen and Lasher Charity. The funding will support three educational projects during the Inaugural 2020 Hastings International Piano Festival, which takes place from February 26th – 8th […]

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The highly anticipated Inaugural Hastings International Piano Festival launched last week in spectacular fashion at the White Rock Theatre as audience members were treated to four star filled concerts. Award-winning songwriter and producer Guy Chambers kicked off proceedings on Wednesday night as he performed piano interpretations of his many hits, whilst presenting the audience with […]

The Inaugural Hastings International Piano Festival closed on Sunday 8th March after a spectacular 2-week celebration of the piano culminated with a weekend of world-class performances. 168 international artists including Rufus Wainwright, Guy Chambers, Reuben James, Claire Martin OBE, Rachel Portman OBE, Mark Kermode, Martin James Bartlett, The Puppini Sisters, The Dodge Brothers, The Swedish […]

Hastings International Piano presents a series of online 15 minute concerts every Friday evening at 7pm. This Friday 27 March join us for An Evening In With 2019 Hastings International Piano Concerto Competition prizewinner Maxim Kinasov. Start 7pm GMT In these times when the livelihood of our musicians is at risk, we are launching this […]

The Inaugural Hastings International Piano Festival has announced an exciting partnership with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) to launch their ambitious 2020 educational offer. In the lead up to the 2020 Piano Festival, Hastings Piano will host a series of inspirational workshops with NYJO Associates in three local secondary schools: Hastings Academy, Ark Alexandra […]