FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

Festival: August 4-8, 2025

The International Keyboard Odyssiad® & Festival, U.S.A., is a summer piano competition and festival featuring enthralling evening concerts by internationally renowned pianists, including international piano competition medalists and world-renowned pianists, and a vibrant educational learning environment for all competitors.

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. Other Festival events, such as masterclasses and special presentations, are paid events requiring 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 IKOF pass, including daily events and evening concerts.

The Odyssiad® Festival includes the LIVE Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Solo and Concerto Competitions, Group Masterclasses for Odyssiad® finalists, Young Artist Development Sessions for Odyssiad® alternates, and riveting evening concerts by world-renowned pianists.

2025 Guest Artists

Guest Artists for the 2025 Odyssiad® Festival include Cellist Zuill Bailey (Grammy-Award Winning Cellist), Violinist Yi-Jia Susanne Hou, with Pianist Bryan Wallick (Horowitz Gold Medalist, Kyiv; Professor, Colorado State University); the new Silver Medalist of the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (TBD May/June of 2025); Concert Pianist Yaron Kohlberg, President of Piano/Cleveland and Cleveland International Piano Competition (CIPC); Concert Pianist Charlotte Hu, Professor, Boston Conservatory, Founder and Director of the Philadelphia Young Pianists Academy (PYPA); 2017 Odyssiad® Gold Medalist, Dongni Xie; and the musical titan, Mikhail Voskresensky, former Head of the Piano Faculty at the Moscow Conservatory.

Additional guest artists include 2025 Official Odyssiad® Staff Accompanists Mikhail Berestnov, Daria Kiseleva, and Jooyeon Chang; Conductor Devin Patrick Hughes (Boulder Symphony and Symphony of the Rockies), Brooke Elzey, Master of Ceremonies; and many others.

Join us at the 2025 Odyssiad® Festival

    • Registration for the 5-day Odyssiad® Festival is available to all Odyssiad® Preliminary Round Competitors.

    • The Odyssiad® Festival Pass is $300. Register and pay online via Acceptd.

    • The Odyssiad® Festival Registration Fee admits one person to all daily sessions, including Group Masterclasses with top master teachers for Solo Division Finalists, special Young Artist Development Sessions with festival judges for Odyssiad® Competition alternates, the LIVE Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Competition, and a series of riveting evening concerts by international piano competition winners and world-renowned guest artists.

    • Odyssiad® Semifinalists must notify Odyssiad® staff of their intent to participate in the competition, register for the festival, confirm their request for a Host Family, and pay the festival fee of $300 by June 30, 2025 to be accepted to the 2025 Odyssiad®.

    • Ala Carte tickets for the following Festival Sessions: 1) Group Masterclasses with festival master teachers for all Odyssiad® finalists, and 2) Young Artist Development Sessions with festival judges for all Odyssiad® alternates (an integral learning and educational component of the 2025 festival) are available for purchase at the registration table for $20 USD each for non-festival participants.

    • Cash or check only.

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