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Piano Island Festival | 8th Edition
Hainan, China
24 july - 31 July 2026

ABOUT

Music is enough for a lifetime - but a lifetime is not enough for music.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

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Congyu Wang

Founder

Welcome to the 8th edition of the Piano Island Festival 2026! We are thrilled to bring our vibrant community of piano lovers to Haikou Hainan, China, from July 24th to 31th. This year's festival promises to be our most exquisite and intimate gathering yet, featuring Masterclasses, Public Masterclasses, and Concerts led by our esteemed Faculty and Guest professors.

 

The Piano Island Competition 8th Edition will be held once again - with many amazing prizes to be won. All the winners of the competition will stand a chance to win scholarships to the 9th International Piano Island Festival in 2027. The grand prize winner of the competition will also be invited as a jury member for the 9th edition.

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Piano Island Management Pte. Ltd. was founded in Singapore in 2018, where we pioneered our vision and mission to empower bringing piano lovers together from all over the world to build up on their piano journey. Piano Island Management started it's series of Piano Island Festivals from 2018, where we held our 1st debut edition in Singapore. Between 2019 to 2025, we received more than 1350 applications from all over the world. We witnessed a very high level in the festival competitions. We can now be assured of the international standard set by our competition prize winners as well as our highly distinguished faculty notably - Dang Thai Son, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Philippe Cassard, Eliane Reyes, Pascal Roge, Kevin Kenner, Antonio di Cristofano etc.

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All of us here at Piano Island Festival strongly believe in the future of classical music, and we wish to be the platform for many emerging artists, to help them take their first steps in their career. 

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For those of you who are planning to join us in 2026, we, the festival team, are preparing enthusiastically for what we believe will be a satisfying experience for you. We are counting down the days until we welcome you in person!

Thank you very much for your continued and encouraging support to our festival.

Piano Island Festival - About us

Piano Island Festival

8th Edition - Hainan (24th to 31st July 2026)

The Piano Island International Music Festival is a classical music festival featuring renowned teachers and highly gifted performers. We provide musical education of the highest quality to serious music students.

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In principle, the concept of the festival is to present a series of public masterclasses to a very selective group of pianists, daily lectures and forums to interact with local music teachers and students, concerts featuring our invited guest artists and faculty.

 

An international piano competition will be organised separately from the festival, providing gifted participants numerous opportunities to perform internationally, including a concerto performance in Europe for the 2026 season, 2 years management, and a professional CD recording. 

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IPIF offers musicians a choice of 7 programs of study:

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  • - Solo Piano : Dang Thai Son (Vietnam)

  • - Solo Piano : Haesun Paik (South Korea)

  • - Solo Piano : Murray McLachlan (UK)

  • - Solo Piano : Wibi Soerjadi (Netherlands)

  • - Solo Piano : Cai CongCong (China)

  • - Solo Piano : Rixiang Huang (China)

  • - Solo Piano : Congyu Wang (Singapore)

 

The mission of the Piano Island International Music Festival is to discover new talents internationally and to help them find performing opportunities. The festival is dedicated to young music students pursuing music careers. The idea behind Piano Island festival is to organize festivals in as many destinations around the world as possible, to bring top quality music performances to our future audiences.

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