{"id":12187,"date":"2023-03-29T10:18:31","date_gmt":"2023-03-29T10:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2023-04-20T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T10:42:22","slug":"international-piano-day-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/international-piano-day-2023-12187\/","title":{"rendered":"International Piano Day 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piano Day is an annual and growing worldwide event that takes place on the 88th day of the year. Originally founded in 2015 by Nils Frahm, it falls on March 29 in the year 2023. 88 corresponds to the number of keys of the piano. <\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhy does the world need a Piano Day? For many reasons. But mostly, because it doesn\u2019t hurt to celebrate the piano and everything around it: performers, composers, piano builders, tuners, movers and most important, the listener.\u201d <\/em>
\n\u2013 Nils Frahm<\/p>\n

Official website: pianoday.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Piano Day website presents a vast collection of events taking place all over the world. Many of them favour the so called \u201dnew-classical piano music\u201d genre. Piano Street has put an effort in finding performances which reflect the classical piano repertoire.<\/p>\n

Selected events: (more will be added when available)<\/p>\n

Medici TV<\/h3>\n

Medici honors World Piano Day in a 88-minute celebration of legendary pianists and works we love to hear them play. Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein to Van Cliburn and Emil Gilels, Martha Argerich and Daniel Barenboim to Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires and Grigory Sokolov, Yuja Wang and Daniil Trifonov to Alexandra Dovgan and Yunchan Lim and more.<\/p>\n