AmateurPianists

This is the first round of the 2025 San Diego Piano Competition and Festival for Outstanding Amateurs hosted by AmateurPianists. AmateurPianists believes in making piano music accessible to everyone, so all the events over the entire 3 days are FREE to the audience. So come and bring your family and friends!

This Preliminary Round has every promise of being a spectacular one, with 30 superb pianists from across the globe. They are just like us, people with day jobs/obligations; but they also chose to spend a lot of their discretionary time practicing and practicing and practicing. And we will get a chance to hear them at their best! Perhaps nervous best?

You are invited to attend and applaud enthusiastically, knowing that EVERYONE is a winner just by being selected for this competition. Each competitor will play a 10-minute repertoire, based on their own selection of music, which will be published in the program booklet available to all.

Please register for this Preliminary Round with your RSVP to this event. This will help us monitor the number of people in the audience.

Note: This is the longest session of all so feel free to take a break any time. (As with classical concerts, please enter and exit quietly between pieces.) There is a 60-minute lunch break and a short 15-minutes break in the morning and afternoon.

The jury will select 12 pianists to move on to the Semi-Final Round and the names of the Semi-Finalists will be posted at 6:00 pm PDT on June 27, 2025.

This is the afternoon session for the first round of the 2025 San Diego Piano Competition and Festival for Outstanding Amateurs hosted by AmateurPianists. AmateurPianists believes in making piano music accessible to everyone so all the events during the entire 3 days are FREE to the audience. So come and bring your family and friends!

This Preliminary Round has every promise of being a spectacular one, with 30 superb pianists from across the globe. They are just like us, people with day jobs/obligations; but they also chose to spend a lot of their discretionary time practicing and practicing and practicing. And we will get a chance to hear them at their best! Perhaps nervous best?

You are invited to attend and applaud enthusiastically, knowing that EVERYONE is a winner just by being selected for this competition. Each competitor will perform a 10-minute repertoire, based on their own selection of music, which will be published in the program booklet available to all.

Please register for this Preliminary Round with your RSVP to this event. This will help us monitor the number of people in the audience.

Note: This is the longest session of all, so feel free to take a break any time. (As with classical concerts, please enter and exit quietly between pieces).

The jury will select 12 pianists to move on to the Semi-Final Round and the names of the Semi-Finalists will be posted at 6:00 pm PDT on June 27, 2025.

Excitement is building!

This is the second round of the 2025 San Diego Piano Competition and Festival for Outstanding Amateurs hosted by AmateurPianists. AmateurPianists believes in making piano music accessible to everyone so all the events during the entire 3 days are FREE to the audience. So come and enjoy amazing piano music!

Out of the 30 pianists who performed in the Preliminary Round, 12 will be selected to continue on to this Semi-Final Round. Each of the 12 pianists will play a 15-minute repertoire, based on their own selection of music, which will be published in the program booklet available to all.

Please register for this Semi-Final Round with your RSVP to this event. This will help us monitor the number of people in the audience.

Starting at 10:00 am, 6 pianists will perform. There will be a 1-hour lunch break, followed by another 6 pianists. There will be no other breaks. (Reminder: Please enter and exit quietly between pieces.)

The jury will select 6 pianists to move on to the Final Round and the names of the Finalists will be posted at 6:00 pm PDT on June 28, 2025. See how your favorite picks compare to the Jury's selections!

This is a very special part of the 2025 San Diego International Piano Competition & Festival for Outstanding Pianists, hosted by AmateurPianists. AmateurPianists believes in making piano music accessible to all the events during the entire 3 days are FREE to the audience. So come and bring your friends!

This Festival Concert was born out of the realization that many pianists would love to perform but are NOT ready to compete, nor want to. So this is a unique (and possibly RARE) opportunity to watch and applaud these pianists in a non-adjudicated setting. Each performer has elected to play 1 or more short pieces, with the total concert time to be around 90 minutes.

The selection of Festival pianists was by random drawing. Please show your appreciation and support by applauding—they certainly deserve it!

There will be no breaks as we want to utilize all available time for the pianists. If you need to leave or enter the hall, please do so quietly during the transition between pianists.

Please register for this Festival Concert with your RSVP to this event. This will help us monitor the number of people who plan to attend.