Pianissimo Winter Festival gathers pianists from 9 countries in the Lower region

The International Festival of Young Pianists Pianissimo (12+) will hold the winter season from December 4, 2026 to February 12, 2027 in four cities at once - Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad and Nizhny Novgorod. Among the concert venues are the Hermitage, Peterhof, HPP-2, the Tretyakov Gallery and Nizhny Novgorod Warehouses.

The festival was founded in St. Petersburg in 2017 and presents musicians at the beginning of their career, and performances are traditionally held not in philharmonic halls, but in museums, historical residences and spaces of modern culture.

This season is attended by pianists from nine countries: Maxim Kletsun (Portugal), Konstantin Matias (France), Gianluca Christofaro (Italy), Ben Lepetit (Germany), Tolga Bilget (Turkey), Park Chanhek and Chiho Choi (South Korea), Chanda Bupe Lupambo (Zambia and South Africa), as well as Russian musicians Alikhan Kundukhov, Maxim Li, Daniel Pronin, Roman Cher and Fyodor Orlov. For many foreign artists, these concerts will be their debut in Russia. The programs include three centuries of piano music, from Bach and Mozart to Ravel, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, including both large cycles and sonatas and rarely performed compositions.

“It has always been important for Pianissimo not only to introduce new names, but also to create a special culture of listening,” said Alexey Gorodnev, founder of the festival.