FESTIVAL OVERVIEW

Festival: August 3-8, 2026

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 will be available for purchase at CSUArtsTickets.com. Festival registrants receive admittance to all events with their festival 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.

2026 Guest Artists, Presenters, Accompanists, and Judges

Guest Artists for the 2026 Odyssiad® Festival include the young titans Martin Garcia Garcia (First Prize winner of the 2021 Cleveland International Piano Competition) and David Khrikuli (2025 Chopin International Piano Competition Finalist), Daria Podorezhnova (Gold Medalist, Professional Young Artist Concerto Division, 2025 Odyssiad®; 2nd Prize, 2025 Olga Kern International Piano Competition), as well as the brilliant duo team of Anderson & Roe Piano Duo, known for their adrenalized performances, original compositions, and notorious music videos.

The 2026 Presenters include Moldovan-American pianist Milana Stezeva, Konstantin Soukhovetski (Adjunct Faculty at The Juilliard School), and award-winning pianist Graciela Kowalczyk (France/Poland/America).

Odyssiad® Official Staff Accompanists are Mikhail Berestnev and Daria Kiseleva.

And judges for 2026 include Bryan Wallick, Devin Patrick Hughes, Konstantin Soukovetski, Milana Strezeva, Martin Garcia Garcia, David Khrikuli, Daria Podorezhnova, Stephanie Cheng, Silvana Santinelli, Jooyeon Chang, Hsing-Hsuan Lin, Hyeji Seo, Leo Walz, Susan Spelius Gannon, Vlad Ostromensky, Iris Zhang, Janet Landreth, and others.

Join us at the 2026 Odyssiad® Festival

    • Registration for the six-day Odyssiad® Festival is available to all Odyssiad® Preliminary Round Competitors (Odyssiad® Festival Pass) for $325. 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 and concerto division alternates, special young artist development sessions with festival guest artists and/or judges for Odyssiad® Competition alternates, the LIVE Semifinal and Final Rounds of the Odyssiad® Competition, and a series of exciting 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 $325 by June 22, 2026, to be accepted to the 2026 Odyssiad®.

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

  • 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.

    TICKETS: $38/adult; $17/student; FREE/child (12 and under)