The Second International
Stretto Piano Festival

Narrow Keys… Broad Minds… No Boundaries

June 18-26, 2022

Please join us for
The Second International Stretto Piano Festival!

With Live and concerts in NYC on June 18, 19, 21 & 25 and
online concerts by 40+ artists from five continents!

All pianists will be performing on keys that are narrower than today's conventional keyboard size with
its 6.5 inch octave. This size is large by historical standards and mainly suits adult males with average to large hands.

Stretto Piano Concerts

Stretto Festival in the News

Our Aims

…raise awareness and promote the idea of alternate piano key sizes,

…promote and elevate the careers of the performers on these keyboards,

..and assist in energizing a community of those who are proponents of this technology.

All times indicated below are in USA Eastern Daylight Time

 

Welcome from our Artistic Directors

 
 

Welcome from Carol Leone

Welcome from Rhonda Boyle

Home Cities of Stretto Performers


Karolinka de Bree and Dorine Diemer present: S. Rachmaninov: piano concerto op. 18 no. 2 in C-minor
Jun
26

Karolinka de Bree and Dorine Diemer present: S. Rachmaninov: piano concerto op. 18 no. 2 in C-minor

Please join us in this unforgettable Rachmaninov adventure! Karolinka plays on a 7/8 keyboard, designed and made for her by Thomas Kaduk. The keyboard has been installed in a Steinway M grand piano. The lovely Dorine Diemer aka 'Orchestre de Dorine' is playing on a Ronisch piano, a brand that Rachmaninov himself played and composed on frequently when he was still living in Russia.

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Erica Booker, teacher, with Ashleigh Wong and Clive Guo, graduating students
Jun
26

Erica Booker, teacher, with Ashleigh Wong and Clive Guo, graduating students

I am Erica Booker, Principal of Eton Piano Studio, and I'm proud to present two of my brilliant 17 year old students, Ashleigh Wong and Clive Guo. They have grown up in my Eton Road studio containing four pianos, each of which has a different keyboard. Both Ashleigh and Clive hold their Licentiates in Piano Performance, LMusA and are currently in their final year at school in Sydney Australia.

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Mami Shikimori plays Viner with an Introductory talk by Frederick Viner
Jun
25

Mami Shikimori plays Viner with an Introductory talk by Frederick Viner

Premiere of Frederick Viner's new compositions. Viner says of his pieces "Coffee to Go and Nodding Off (nos. 1-2) could aptly represent key parts of my daily routine.” Performed by the award-winning pianist Mami Shikimori. Also in the programme is Beethoven's monumental "Appassionata" Sonata.

Tune in to watch how much more power Mami gets on the 6.0 inches octave keys.

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Linda Gould: Classical to Blues
Jun
23

Linda Gould: Classical to Blues

Experience 3 different narrow keyboards in this 45 min piano concert. Linda Gould plays on a Yamaha G2 grand fitted with a DS 5.5 keyboard, a digital prototype (NK 5.5) that is being launched at NAMM in June and a BLUE keyboard that is also a digital prototype with 5.5 inch octave keys. She will explore piano music from J.S. Bach to Christopher Norton including 5 two-piano pieces with dragonfly sister Sue Gould.

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Music Lovers Concert - Debussy, Chopin, Mozart, Vivaldi and more!
Jun
23

Music Lovers Concert - Debussy, Chopin, Mozart, Vivaldi and more!

Non-professional and professional New York City musicians gather to present a Stretto Piano Concert at the Fred & Adele Astaire Ballroom at Houghton Hall. Please join pianists, Alina Rubinstein and Peter Fancovic, Cellist Anne Taylor, teenage soprano Carmen Yager and Creator/Co-Artistic Director of ISPC, pianist and soprano Hannah Reimann for familiar and new music including a mini piano recital by Fancovic to complete the evening.

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Julia Hastings: Music from Home - if you live in the world
Jun
21

Julia Hastings: Music from Home - if you live in the world

As a child, Australia's SBS World News tagline 'News from home, if you live in the world' always resonated with me, and across the last two years of disconnection and isolation, it seemed more relevant than ever. Join me for this virtual world tour recital, showcasing the delicate threads that music weaves between cultures and continents, and transcending time.

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Mariana Rodrigues presents: Niramar Suite
Jun
20

Mariana Rodrigues presents: Niramar Suite

Composer and pianist Mariana Rodrigues presents Niramar Suite, an authorial composition that reflects her experiences and musical references such as Brazilian popular music, classical music and jazz. The program also contains the composition Forrozinho No. 1 by André Marques.

This performance is being played on a Yamaha C7X concert grand fitted with a DS6.0 keyboard, São Paulo/Brazil.

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Eliana Yi: Etudes, Ballades, and Dances
Jun
20

Eliana Yi: Etudes, Ballades, and Dances

Join Eliana Yi as she plays works of Scriabin, Chopin, and Young Jo Lee. Eliana will be playing on her Yamaha G3, retrofitted with a DS 5.5 keyboard designed by David Steinbuhler. With this keyboard, Eliana has access to a wide-range of repertoire that would otherwise be unhealthy to play with her 6.5-inch handspan. Pieces like Scriabin's op.42 no.5 etude and Chopin's fiery ending to Ballade no.1 are not only comfortable to play, but immensely satisfying.

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Jess Johnson: New Works by Women
Jun
19

Jess Johnson: New Works by Women

This program features newly-commissioned works for solo piano by Serra Hwang, Elena Ruehr, Laura Schwendinger and Lawren Brianna Ware. The program also includes collaborations with Kate Corby, choreographer, Cindy Stefanek, dancer, and Anthony Di Sanza, percussionist. All works are performed on a DS 5.5 Steinbuhler piano keyboard.

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Lucas Gonçalves: Piano Recital
Jun
19

Lucas Gonçalves: Piano Recital

This concert presents a very expressive, creative and interesting program with some of the most important compositions of the 19th and 20th century piano literature: on one side works from the polish composer Frédéric Chopin and on the other one works from the Brazilian Composers Alexandre Levy and Heitor Villa-Lobos.

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The Co-Artistic Directors

Hannah Reimann from New York City

Carol Leone from Dallas, Texas

Rhonda Boyle from Melbourne, Australia

Other Key Websites

The DS Standard Foundation

Pianists for Alternatively Sized Keyboards (PASK)
A global network of pianists wanting change to the 'one size fits all' keyboard

STRETTO means 'narrow' in Italian.