2025 Bay PianoFest

Celebrating 5th Anniversary

08/04 - 08/13, 2025

The Bay PianoFest is a 10-days piano festival held at the

San Francisco Conservatory of Music, CA

Program Highlights:

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Over 10 World Artists 
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Private Lessons
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Daily Masterclasses
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Faculty Concert
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Professional Media Package
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Special Topic Lectures
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Daily Conducting Workshops
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Piano Performance Forum
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Young Artist Series
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Exclusive Access by attending the 2025 San Francisco International Piano Competition

Apply by March 15th

2024 Program Booklet

Early Bird Deadline: March 1st, 2025 ($100)
Final Deadline: March 15th, 2025 ($120)
Applications will be received for admission results by March 25th, approximately two weeks after the application deadline. All admission results are sent to your email address as listed on the application form. If you need early admission to obtain the visa, please email us!
Application Fee is Non-refundable
Yoshikau Nagai – San Francisco Conservatory of Music (Artistic Advisor)
Boris Berman – Yale School of Music
HieYon Choi – Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University
Alan Chow – The Eastman School of Music
Alvin Chow – Oberlin College and Conservatory
Enrico Elisi — Texas Christian University
Douglas Humpherys – Eastman School of Music
Alexander Korsantia – New England Conservatory of Music
Larry J. Livingston – University of Southern California
Jerome Lowenthal – The Juilliard School
Sharon Mann – San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Rebecca Penneys – Eastman School of Music
Artists Faculty Bio Detail, click here.
Two contrasting repertoire
- One movement from a classical sonata (Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven)
- One Free Choice of the repertoire (Baroque, Romantic, or Contemporary)
You may submit selection(s) from multi-movement works
Total time: 10-20 minutes
Audition Recording should be submitted via Youtube/Google Drive/Youku Link
Piano Concerto movements are not acceptable.
Participants aged 12 and older are eligible and encouraged to apply. Exceptionally talented applicants under the age of 12 may apply.
All participants under the age of 16 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Parents attending the festival with a child must purchase an auditor card.
Every selected participant will
- 4 private lessons/masterclasses with the distinguished artists
- Performance/Participate forum class
- Daily Conducting Workshops
- Access to all masterclasses, lectures, concerts, piano forums, and events.
- Young artist concerts
- Professional Performance Media Package
- Exclusive Access by attending the 2025 San Francisco International Piano Competition
In-Person Tuition: $2500 USD
Online Tuition: $1600 USD
Housing at San Francisco Conservatory of Music (Optional)
Housing at San Francisco Conservatory of Music (Optional):
In-person participants may choose to stay at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, which include 24/7 access to practice spaces with self-recording capabilities, or may find housing on their own.
Festival rooms included double rooms, single rooms, and suites for participants who come with their parents. You can request a specific roommate or the festival can randomly place you with another participant.

Double shared room: $980 USD
Single Room: $1380 USD
Suite for family: $1980 USD

Apply by March 15th

2025 Faculty

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Jerome Lowenthal

The Juilliard School

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HieYon Choi

Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University

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Alan Chow

The Eastman School of Music

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Larry J. Livingston

University of Southern California

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Sharon Mann

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Alvin Chow

Oberlin College and Conservatory

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Yoshikazu Nagai

San Francisco Conservatory of Music (Artistic Advisor)

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Alexander Korsantia

New England Conservatory of Music

Boris Berman

Yale University — School of Music

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Rebecca Penneys

Eastman School of Music

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Enrico Elisi

Texas Christian University

Douglas Humpherys

Eastman School of Music

Apply by March 15th

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Q&A

Is the Festival in-person this year?

Bay PianoFest will have another special Hybrid version in 2024. All participants can choose to attend either in-person in San Francisco or online to earn from the prestigious faculty for all of our events.