{"id":13486,"date":"2025-03-27T14:37:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T14:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/?p=13486"},"modified":"2025-04-01T13:16:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:16:32","slug":"world-piano-day-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pianostreet.com\/blog\/piano-news\/world-piano-day-2025-13486\/","title":{"rendered":"World Piano Day 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Piano Day is an annual worldwide event that takes place on the 88th day of the year, which in 2025 is March 29. Every year, it provokes special concerts, onstage and online, as well as radio shows, podcasts, and playlists. Established in 2015, it is now well known across the globe and this year we celebrate it\u2019s 10th anniversary!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Piano Day was founded in 2015 by the German pianist, composer and producer Nils Frahm to encourage creative responses to the piano through new music, art, and improvisation, bringing people together through large and small, private and public piano-themed events. Frahm envisioned a worldwide holiday, “more important than Christmas and more stressful than Thanksgiving”, when people would create their own piano events with friends or simply share their piano-inspired videos, poems, or photos.<\/p>\n

In the years after its launch, Piano Day quickly expanded and began to enter some of the world’s most prestigious venues, from Sydney Opera House to Funkhaus Berlin and London’s Barbican Centre. Every year has its Piano Day playlist, with specially composed piano pieces by professionals and amateurs of all ages and musical persuasions. Since 2022, these playlists have been released as an official album, Vol. 4 coming out on 29 March this year. For the tenth anniversary, Frahm’s recording label Leiter has produced a Piano Day sheet music book together with Faber Music \u2013 Piano Day: The Collection. The book features pieces that have appeared on Piano Day playlists over the years, by artists like Olafur Arnalds, Chilly Gonzales, Joep Beving, and Hania Rani.<\/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> \u2013 Nils Frahm, pianist and founder of Piano Day<\/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 online events: (more will be added when available)<\/p>\n

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London Symphony Orchestra<\/h3>\n

London Symphony Orchestra invites to watch concert excerpts: Alice Sara Ott playing Liszt\u2019s thunderous Totentanz, Seong-Jin Cho playing Rachmaninov\u2019s iconic Piano Concerto No 2 and Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires playing Schumann\u2019s intimate Piano Concerto.
\nInterview with Eric Lu: Beethoven Edition. Ahead of his orchestral debut next week, LSO spoke with Eric Lu about his early attraction to the piano and the profound significance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s music in his artistic journey.
\nInterviews with Pianists: Alice Sara Ott discussing why she loves being a musician, as well as Kirill Gerstein on Gershwin\u2019s Piano Concerto in F and Frank Dupree on Kapustin\u2019s Piano Concerto No 4.<\/p>\n

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www.lso.co.uk\/happy-world-piano-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Medici.tv<\/h3>\n

Medici.tv invites to a curated 88-minute piano extravaganza, featuring pieces of great emotion and virtuosity by Bach, Chopin, Ravel, Mozart, Beethoven, and many more – in the hands of piano masters past and present, including Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Grimaud, Arthur Rubinstein, Yuja Wang, Maria Jo\u00e3o Pires and Daniil Trifonov.
\nwww.medici.tv Piano Day 2025 compilation (subscription required)<\/a>
\nmedici.tv Piano Day 2024\/2025 compliation (same as above but free)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Stage+<\/h3>\n

In a unique London Lightroom concert, Yuja Wang performs a curated Bach-to-Berio repertoire inspired by David Hockney’s immersive 360-degree projections. Offered by Stage+, this all-encompassing audio-visual experience explores sensory connections between art and music, uniting two significant contemporary cultural voices.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.stage-plus.com Wang & Hockney<\/a><\/p>\n

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Non-classical streams and compilations:<\/h3>\n

ARTE Concert’s Piano Day<\/h3>\n

Nils Frahm created Piano Day to bring piano lovers together for a day dedicated entirely to the instrument. To echo this international event, ARTE Concert and Sourdoreille Production team up for an evening of music that is 100% keyboard.<\/p>\n