Fabulous pianist Byeol Kim offers a recital of classical and new works that is going to be a blast! The concert is at 3PM at the First Presbyterian Church of Lakeland.

The concert is Free of Charge. Reservations are encouraged.

Acclaimed Latin Grammy nominated jazz pianist Martin Bejerano presents a solo concert among the beautiful artwork of the Polk Museum of Art in a concert that is sure to be amazing!

Concert is free of charge, reservations are encouraged.

Dr. Charles Hulin of Southeastern University will be presenting a masterclass for local students! This is an exciting opportunity to see the skill present in young pianists in our local community, and to hear an interesting new perspective on piano music.

This event is free and open to all! If you are interested in playing in the masterclass, please apply at the link below.

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TWO SHOWINGS: 10:30 AM and 11:15 AM

We are thrilled to be starting a partnership with the Florida Children’s Museum in beautiful Bonnett Springs Park. This immersive theatrical experience will be run by Claire Fleitz, featuring Jazz pianist John C. O’Leary, and will be geared to slightly older children and is certainly not to be missed.

Reservations are not required, and the event is free with a ticket to the museum! Please arrive on time!

Please write us if you have financial barriers towards attending the museum.

Festival Co-Founder and Lakeland native Robert Fleitz, will present the festival’s opening night performance! This concert will also include the world premiere of a new work commissioned by the festival by Natalia Rojcovscaia-Tumaha.

This concert is free of charge but reservations are encouraged.

We are so excited to be returning to Pressed LKLD for another wonderful collaboration for young children! Hosted by Claire Fleitz, this event will combine music, curiosity, and storytelling for a wonderful morning of artistic exploration.

The event will take place at 9:30 and 10:15. SPACE IS EXTREMELY LIMITED and reservations are required.

Come to the Pink Piano on Thursday, May 23rd and have a drink in support of the Swan City Piano Festival. Meet one of our Artistic Directors and Founders, Patrick Fleitz, and learn more about the Festival. Blues pianist Craig Brenner will be at the piano.

The fabulous Sun-A Park will close the festival with an amazing program of unforgettably virtuosic classical piano music!

Our second guest artist, Tal Cohen, will present a concert of jazz music by himself and others at the beautiful Polk Museum of Art. This immersive and unique experience will be one not to be missed!

SOLD OUT!!!

If you want to still try to come to the event, you can come to the concert and if a standby spot opens up, it will be offered to you in the order that you arrive. Thanks!

2023 Swan City Piano Festival guest artist and UCF Professor of piano Sun-A Park will be joining us the day before her recital to offer a masterclass to students in the community! If you would like to participate in the masterclass, please visit the link below.

TWO SHOWINGS: 10:30 AM and 11:15 AM

We are thrilled to be starting a partnership with the Florida Children’s Museum in beautiful Bonnett Springs Park. This immersive theatrical experience will be run by Claire Fleitz, and will be geared to slightly older children and is certainly not to be missed.

Our village is preparing for a royal parade with decorations and music- until we find out that the queen wants the event to have no music at all! The townspeople must work together to save the parade and prove the value of music! This interactive theatre event invites children into the story to help solve a problem and experiment with all the ways we can make music!

Reservations are not required, and the event is free with a ticket to the museum! Please arrive on time!

Please write us if you have financial barriers towards attending the museum.

This year's festival opens with the wonderful Jihye Chang, who will be sharing a concert of music new and old for piano! She will also be giving the world premiere of a new work by composer Erica Porter, commissioned by the Swan City Piano Festival.

This year we are excited to be hosting the wonderful composer Erica Porter as our Composer-in-Residence. At this presentation, we will have the opportunity to see samples of Erica’s work as a composer for film and video games, and hear about her professional journey. We will also have the chance to hear a sample of the newly composed work that Jihye Chang will perform in the concert immediately following. Come by for what is sure to be a fascinating discussion!

Pianist Eunmi Ko, faculty of piano at University of South Florida and Swan City Piano Festival Guest Artist in 2022, will be coming back to Lakeland to offer a masterclass to piano students in our community! If you’re interested in participating in the masterclass, please follow the link below to sign up.

Local legend of the Lakeland music community Charles Hulin will return to present an intriguing, insightful presentation on the music that we will hear throughout the duration of the festival. Charles will share interesting, unexpected ideas about the artists and composers featured, offering audience members new ways to connect with the music during the festival!

Deland-based pianist and Stetson professor of piano Hannah Sun joins us to present a concert of Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Liszt, Field, as well as her own compositions!

This concert, like all our events, is free and open to the public!

Tampa-based Jazz pianist John C. O’Leary III presents a concert of his original compositions! We’re excited to welcome him to the festival this year.

This event, like all our concerts, is completely free and open to the public!

Ms. Hannah Sun, one of this year’s guest artists, will be presenting a masterclass for local students! This is an exciting opportunity to see the skill present in young pianists in our local community, and to hear an interesting new perspective on piano music.

This event is free and open to all! If you are interested in playing in the masterclass, please apply at the link below.

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Lakeland Born pianist Robert Fleitz presents a concert of exciting new works, including the world premiere of a work by Composer-in-Residence Brian Dozier Brown, commissioned by the festival!

This event is completely free!

Dr. Fen-Fang Chen, Professor of Piano at Florida Southern College, will be presenting a masterclass for local students! This is an exciting opportunity to see the skill present in young pianists in our local community, and to hear an interesting new perspective on piano music.

This event is free and open to all! If you are interested in playing in the masterclass, please apply at the link below.

APPLY TO PERFORM

We’re so excited to be partnering with local bookstore Pressed LKLD for this exciting event for the youngest members of our community! Created by theatre educator Claire Fleitz and local musician Derik Thomas, children and their caretakers will explore the wonderful world of music through sight, sound, and movement in this interactive play experience. Each session begins with a short story time of the story, The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield.

This family experience is geared towards children 2-6 years old. THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!

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We’re so excited to be partnering with local bookstore Pressed LKLD for this exciting event for the youngest members of our community! Created by theatre educator Claire Fleitz and local musician Derik Thomas, children and their caretakers will explore the wonderful world of music through sight, sound, and movement in this interactive play experience. Each session begins with a short story time of the story, The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield.

This family experience is geared towards children 2-6 years old. This event is SOLD OUT.

We’re excited to host Dr. Charles Hulin from Southeastern University, who will be taking us on a tour of what to expect at the festival this year! Dr. Hulin will introduce the audience to interesting insights on each of the recital programs, and share his own thoughts on the repertoire. It’s sure to be an enlightening and interesting event and we look forward to starting the festival with you here!

This event is totally free and no previous registration is required.

The Swan City Piano Festival is delighted to present the final of three LIVE concerts, featuring the pianist Eunmi Ko!

The concert will take place at First Presbyterian Church in Lakeland, at 3PM on Sunday, June 20th. Ko will perform an exciting program of contemporary piano music by Matthew Schreibeis, Vera Ivanova, John Liberatore, Christopher Goddard, and others.

Hailed as “exceedingly interesting” (New York Concert Review), "kaleidoscopic"(San Francisco Classical Voice),  “excellent” (Gramophone), pianist Eunmi Ko concertizes as a recitalist and chamber musician throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Praised for original interpretations, abundances of piano technique, and interesting programming, she performs a wide range of piano repertoire from premieres of new works by living composers to the traditional and rarely played piano works. Ko holds graduate degrees (MM and DMA) from the Eastman School of Music, and she is the Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. 
www.eunmiko.com 

This concert is FREE and open to the public. You may contribute a donation when buying your ticket.

You can also tune into the LIVESTREAM at this link: https://youtu.be/5odm0p3sN1s

The Swan City Piano Festival is excited to present the second of three concerts for its first ever live season, featuring jazz pianist Dr. Greg Satterthwaite!

The concert will take place at Harrison School for the Arts at 7PM on June 19. Dr. Satterthwaite will perform a fabulous recital of jazz standards and popular songs. 

Dr. Greg Satterthwaite, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, is a jazz pianist who earned his DMA from the University of North Texas in Jazz Piano Performance, a Master of Arts in Commercial Music from Florida Atlantic University, and a Bachelor of Music from the University of Miami. He has studied with Stephen Scott, Ron Miller, Pat Coil, Quincy Davis, Brad Leali, Lynn Seaton, and Dave Meder. Dr. Satterthwaite has taught at Southeastern University as an Assistant Professor of Music. He will join the faculty at The University of Georgia in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano and African American Studies. As a scholarly contribution to the field of music, he presented “Beyond Fourths and Pentatonics: A Critical Analysis of Selected Recordings of McCoy Tyner 1962 to 1963” at the 2021 Jazz Education Network Conference. Dr. Satterthwaite’s debut album, Who I Am, is available on most major streaming platforms and he recently recorded with jazz bassist, Rodney Whitaker. He enjoys attending live music performances, drinking Blue Mountain coffee, and spending time with family.

This event is FREE and open to the public. You may contribute a donation when purchasing your ticket.

You can also tune into the LIVESTREAM at this link: https://youtu.be/qtCKpjhvBRI

Pianist and Festival Co-Founder Robert Fleitz will be hosting a masterclass for local piano students! This class is free to the public, and will be a great chance for high school and university students to get performance opportunities and feedback. Reservations are not required.

If you are interested in playing, please contact festival through our Contact Page!

The Swan City Piano Festival is delighted to present the first of three LIVE concerts, featuring Duo Beaux Arts!

The concert will take place at First Presbyterian Church in Lakeland, at 7PM on June 18th. The duo will feature a wonderful program of Classical and Romantic favorites by Beethoven, Poulenc, Bizet, Chopin and Mendelssohn. 

Duo Beaux Arts was formed in 2008 by renowned husband and wife concert pianists Dr. Catherine Lan and Steinway Artist Tao Lin. The Duo presents over 100 concerts domestically and internationally each year performing in France, Switzerland, Spain, Netherlands, Estonia, Finland,
China, and the US to both critical and audience acclaim. The Duo is also the founders of Beaux Arts Chamber Music Series in Naples, Florida, which invites pre-eminent chamber groups in the world to perform in a wonderfully intimate setting.  For more info, please visit www.duobeauxarts.com

This concert is FREE and open to the public. You may contribute a donation when buying your ticket.

You can also tune in to the LIVESTREAM at this link: https://youtu.be/p3DabrfEB_A

Swan City Piano Festival is excited to present pianist Yvonne Chen, in a solo streaming recital! Yvonne will also be premiering a Swan City Piano Festival Commission by Lakeland native, LA-based electronic producer and DJ Alexia Riner.

A native of suburban Washington, D.C., Ms. Chen received performance degrees from the Juilliard School (New York, NY) and Rice University's Shepherd School of Music (Houston, TX). In Houston she performs as pianist and founder of contemporary music collective Loop38 and as a soloist in arts and music spaces across the city such as Rothko Chapel, the Wortham Center, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She recently finished her doctoral studies at Rice University while on Piano Faculty at St. John’s School.

This event is FREE! Use the link below to reserve your spot, and a Youtube and Zoom link will be emailed to you.

Acclaimed Australian pianist Maxwell Foster presents a solo recital, hosted by the Swan City Piano Festival!

Maxwell Foster has gained his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degrees at the Juilliard School, and his Master of Musical Arts degree at Yale University. Maxwell is now pursuing his Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins under the guidance of Yong-hi Moon.

This recital is free of charge, and will take place on Youtube and Zoom. A Zoom and Youtube Link will be sent to you by email before the concert.