2026 Shortlist

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

  • Yangfeng (Tony) Bai

    Age 27, China

  • Nikita Burzanitsa

    Age 25, Ukraine

  • Yangrui Cai

    Age 25, China

  • Hans Chan

    Age 27, USA

  • Kuan-Wei Chen

    Age 26, Taiwan

  • Alexander Doronin

    Age 23, Russia

  • Shangru Du

    Age 28, China

  • Roman Fediurko

    Age 21, Ukraine

  • Christos Fountos

    Age 28, Cyprus

  • Rowel Friers

    Age 23, Ireland

  • Simon Haje

    Age 20, Germany

  • Khadizha Israpil

    Age 26, Russia

  • Misha Kaploukhii

    Age 23, Russia

  • Jeongjin Kim

    Age 28, South Korea

  • Seunghui Kim

    Age 26, South Korea

  • Song Hyeon Kim

    Age 23, South Korea

  • Suchan Kim

    Age 25, South Korea

  • Arthur Kokerai

    Age 19, Zimbabwe

  • Olga Lazurenko

    Age 21, Russia

  • Huan Li

    Age 28, China

  • Pin-Hong Lin

    Age 24, Taiwan

  • Iskandar Mamadaliev

    Age 24, Uzbekistan

  • Miki Matsumura

    Age 29, Japan

  • Mateusz Mikolajczak

    Age 28, Poland

  • Antoniu Nagy

    Age 25, Romania

  • Jinhyung Park

    Age 29, South Korea

  • Mia Pečnik

    Age 25, Croatia

  • Davide Ranaldi

    Age 25, Italy

  • Hyunjin Roh

    Age 25, South Korea

  • Kazusa Sagawa

    Age 27, Japan

  • Elisabeth Tsai

    Age 26, USA

  • Shunshun Tie

    Age 25, China

  • Anson Wong

    Age 25, Hong Kong/Canada

  • Pei-En Wu

    Age 22, Taiwan

  • Stephan Xie

    Age 25, China

  • Jiwon Yang

    Age 23, South Korea

  • Adria Ye

    Age 28, USA

  • Yali Zaken

    Age 21, Israel

  • Zhiqiao Zhang

    Age 27, China

  • Ryan Zhu

    Age 22, Canada