The International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A.

Competition (Semifinals): August 3, 2024
Festival, including Final Competition Rounds: August 5–10, 2024

The International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A., is a week-long summer piano competition and festival featuring over a dozen guest artists and pianists in daily masterclasses, matinee concerts, presentations on topics such as repertoire, performance and pedagogy, live Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Olympic-style Odyssiad® Competition, and enthralling evening and matinee concerts by internationally renowned pianists, including Cliburn Gold Medalists. Participation is open to all those who love the piano and its repertoire, including students, professionals, teachers, competitors, and piano enthusiasts of all ages.

The Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Competition are FREE and open to the public to attend. See the schedule for details on dates, times, and locations. Other Festival events, such as masterclasses and special presentations, are paid events that require the purchase of an individual ticket or festival pass to enter and observe. Evening concert tickets are available for purchase at CSUArtsTickets.com. Festival registrants receive admittance to all events with their pass, including evening concerts, and do not need to buy tickets.

Guest Artists for the 2024 Odyssiad® Festival include Inon Barnatan (renowned soloist, curator, and collaborator), Sergei Babayan (First prize: Cleveland International Piano Competition, the Hamamatsu Piano Competition, and the Scottish International Piano Competition), Croatian star Kemal Gekic, cellist Zuill Bailey (Grammy-Award Winner), with Bryan Wallick (Colorado State University, Winner of the Vladimir Horowitz Competition in Kyiv), Clayton Stephenson (American pianist featured in The Cliburn’s YPCA Showcase at Carnegie Hall), Saehyun Kim (First prize: Cleveland International Piano Competition for Young Artists), and Vyacheslav Gryaznov (Concert Pianist, Arranger, and Composer).

Additional guest artists, presenters, and judges during the daily festival events include Jooyeon Chang (Official Staff Accompanist), Jiwon Han (Official Staff Accompanist), Devin Patrick Hughes (Conductor, Boulder Symphony and Arapahoe Philharmonic), Jung-Eun Kang (Professor, Jeju National University, Jeju, Korea, Odyssiad® competition judge), Dongni Xie (Odyssiad® competition judge), Heather Lanners (Odyssiad® competition judge), Thomas Lanners (Presenter, Odyssiad® competition judge), and Scott Wheeler (Odyssiad® competition M.C.).

The Odyssiad® Festival includes masterclasses with guest artists, presentations on special topics, matinee concerts, the LIVE Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Solo and Concerto Competitions, and five nights of riveting evening concerts by world-renowned pianists.

Anyone signed up for the festival may attend all festival activities such as recitals, masterclasses, and special presentations, and the live Semifinal and Final Rounds for both Solo and Concerto Divisions of the Odyssiad® Competition. Festival registrants also receive tickets to all five of the evening concerts.

2024 International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival Fees

  • Festival Registration Fee for general public (IKOF PASS): $400 USD. Register and pay online. The festival Registration Fee admits one person to all daily sessions, including masterclasses, presentations, matinee concerts, the Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Competition, panel discussions, evening concerts, and social events.

  • Festival Registration Fee for all Odyssiad® competitors (IKOF PASS): $250. Register and pay online. The festival registration fee admits one person to all daily sessions, including masterclasses, presentations, mini-recitals, the Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Competition, panel discussions, evening concerts, and social events.

  • Odyssiad® Semifinalists must notify IKOF of their intent to participate in the festival, register for the festival, and pay the discounted festival fee of $250 by July 5, 2024, to perform in one of the festival masterclasses.

  • Ala Carte tickets to individual masterclasses or specific daily festival sessions are available for purchase at the registration table for $20 USD each for non-festival participants.

  • Tickets to evening concerts by the general public and non-festival registrants are available at the CSU Box office one hour before concerts or online at csuartstickets.com.

  • Private lessons are available during the festival with a select number of guest artists. Private lessons are optional and can be arranged at the IKOF Registration Table for $100 per hour, cash or check only; no credit cards. Requests for private lessons and a sign-up sheet will be available at the registration table.