Pianos are being moved, tuned, and regulated, artists are traveling and playing concerts, we are videotaping, recording, making a documentary film, and spreading the word about Stretto Piano Events and our popular annual festival everywhere.

We cannot complete our mission without you, dear donors and supporters, and we welcome you to make your donation of any amount as we embark on our most exciting festival year yet!

Support The Annual International Stretto Piano Festival, Stretto Piano Concerts, and our global, musical movement of pianists, venues, manufacturers, and enthusiasts who perform on, promote and own "stretto" pianos with narrow keys and who are changing the world of music with these new pianos!

Pianists with small and medium-sized hands want pianos that fit them and they are now playing music they never could play before experiencing a stretto.

Our movement grows exponentially with each concert event, exploding from our annual 10-day event to more than two months in 2025, all of October and November. Our fifth year has presented more suprises and joy than ever, and -- yes -- its' been a lot of work with growing expenses.

2026 will be even more exciting ~ new and familiar artists are reaching out to discuss their dates for the October 2026 festival and the events leading up to it.

We are thrilled to share news about more than seven global piano manufacturers who are now offering "stretto" narrow key pianos in showrooms and via custom order. Influenced by the global stretto piano movement and our annual concerts, stretto pianos are nearing standardization, a lifelong dream of pioneers who have worked on this initiative for decades.

Experience the artists on our 2025 Festival Playlist on YouTube

Highlights from the 2025 festival:

Our first invitation from a commercial pop venue in NYC took place on October 19 at beautiful City Winery NYC, Both Sides Now: The Music of Joni & Hannah, featuring hits by Joni Mitchell and originals by Hannah Reimann. Soloists, virtuoso pianist Eric Clark and Jazz composer Yaniv Taubenhouse, were guest artists that event, representing the multi-genre effort at Strettos Piano Events' home base, New York City. NYC also presented shows at Pearl Diver Sound in Brooklyn with John Virag, Spectrum NYC (contemporary classical music), and a show in May 2025 announcing the festival with chiild prodigy Chelsea Solis.

Dr. Carol Leone presented several lecture demonstrations in Europe with Ulrike Wohlwender and her students, in Innsbruck, Austria with professor and pianist, Annette Seiler, where the stretto trend is rapidly growing.

Our first concerts in Amsterdam and various events by the newly formed Japan Narrow Key Piano Society included concerts from Tokyo, concerts from Kyoto, concerts from Niigata, and An Event with Professor Koji Tanaka at Niigata University which included lecture demonstrations and talks.

Australia presented three multi-artist concerts with kids, renowned pedagogues Glenn Riddle and David Soo, virtuosos Brenna Wee, Camila De Oliveiros, and many children.

Peruse all our 2025 events on our Stretto Piano Concerts home page and 2025 Festival page.

More About Us:

Gradually becoming mainstream with each year, over 80 artists and presenters joined the Fifth International Stretto Piano Festival showcasing over 35 global events. Unique in the world, Stretto Piano Events and the International Stretto Piano Festival are unifying pianists on five continents who are all clamoring for a new standard piano key size, one that is narrower to fit small and medium-sized hands. Hear Stretto artists in NYC, Dallas, Germany, Australia, New Zealand, London, San Diego, Victoria, Amsterdam, England, Wales, and more locations with each Stretto event. A full lineup of this year's events can be found here.

This phenomenon is a global sensation and was featured twice on NPR (12 million listeners), notably on NPR's Morning Edition with Michel Martin.

Internationally renowned conductor Daniel Barenboim has also endorsed our endeavors, saying that he is "happy to support and encourage this initiative.”

PAST CONCERTS OF NOTE IN NYC:

2024 at Symphony Space:

Past links to our LIVE concerts in 2024 at NYC at Peter Norton Symphony Space's Leonard Nimoy Thalia can be found here:

May 28 @ 8 PM: Legendary Pianism with Maryam Raya and Thomas Osuga

May 30 @ 8 PM: Both Sides Now: Music of Joni Mitchell with Hannah Reimman

June 1 @ 12 PM: Children and Teens Concert with Chelsea Solis

June 1 @ 8 PM: The Music of David Amram with Thomas Weaver

June 2 @ 3 PM: Multi Artist Stretto Celebration

June 4 @ 7 PM: Closing Night Celebration - Jazz Meets Classical

2024 Festival Artists on the image above, clockwise from top left: David Amram, Hannah Reimann, Eric Clark, Maryam Raya, Anna Arazi, Steve Sandberg, Zach Brock, Jed Distler, Chelsea Solis, Julia Furlan, Donne Weng-Friedman, Thomas Weaver, Thomas Osuga, Julia Siciliano

The Fifth International Stretto Piano Festival & Stretto Piano Events 2025

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