2026 Competitors

Meet the 40 pianists selected for the 18th Hastings International Piano Competition

  • Yangfeng (Tony) Bai

    China, age 27

  • Nikita Burzanitsa

    Ukraine, age 25

  • Yangrui Cai

    China, age 25

  • Hans Chan

    USA, age 27

  • Kuan-Wei Chen

    Taiwan, age 26

  • Alexander Doronin

    Russia, age 23

  • Shangru Du

    China, age 28

  • Roman Fediurko

    Ukraine, age 21

  • Christos Fountos

    Cyprus, age 28

  • Rowel Friers

    Ireland, age 23

  • Simon Haje

    Germany, age 20

  • Khadizha Israpil

    Russia, age 26

  • Misha Kaploukhii

    Russia, age 23

  • Jeongjin Kim

    South Korea, age 28

  • Seunghui Kim

    South Korea, age 26

  • Song Hyeon Kim

    South Korea, age 23

  • Suchan Kim

    South Korea, age 25

  • Arthur Kokerai

    Zimbabwe, age 19

  • Olga Lazurenko

    Russia, age 21

  • Huan Li

    China, age 28

  • Pin-Hong Lin

    Taiwan, age 24

  • Iskandar Mamadaliev

    Uzbekistan, age 24

  • Miki Matsumura

    Japan, age 29

  • Mateusz Mikolajczak

    Poland, age 28

  • Antoniu Nagy

    Romania, age 25

  • Jinhyung Park

    South Korea, age 29

  • Mia Pečnik

    Croatia, age 25

  • Davide Ranaldi

    Italy, age 25

  • Kazusa Sagawa

    Japan, age 27

  • Natalie Schwamová

    Spain, age 26

  • Elisabeth Tsai

    USA, age 26

  • Shunshun Tie

    China, age 25

  • Anson Wong

    Hong Kong/Canada, age 25

  • Pei-En Wu

    Taiwan, age 22

  • Stephan Xie

    China, age 25

  • Jiwon Yang

    South Korea, age 23

  • Adria Ye

    USA, age 28

  • Yali Zaken

    Israel, age 21

  • Zhiqiao Zhang

    China, age 27

  • Ryan Zhu

    Canada, age 22