API Summer Festival 2025
June 1 - 7 | Phoenix, Arizona
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This year, we celebrated our 10th Summer Festival! 🥳 It was once again a valuable and inspiring event for young pianists, teachers and anyone admiring piano music. This festival homepage provides essential information about the festival, including the program, the faculty and the registration process, as well as auditor and volunteer opportunities.
Summer Festival 2025 Essentials
WHAT
If you are new to the Summer Festival, read what it is all about.
WHEN
Sunday, June 1 to Saturday, June 7, 2025
WHERE
Phoenix College
M Building
1202 W Thomas Road
Phoenix, AZ 85013
Meet the Faculty
We were delighted to welcome back Aviram Reichert, Elisabeth Pridonoff, Eckart Sellheim, and Dian Baker as esteemed members of our faculty. And we were pleased to announce that Rachel Dean and Ian LeRoy would join our faculty to inspire students with improvisation workshops. Eugene Pridonoff once again led the API Teacher Forum, held in conjunction with the Summer Festival.
Read all about the 2025 faculty on this page.
Join as Auditor
Anyone may be an auditor and listen in on any workshop, masterclass, or recital in the API Summer Festival, with the exception of the API Teachers Forum. We heartily welcome you and we appreciate your support. Your presence enlivens the atmosphere, and the students are very grateful for your attendance as their appreciative audience. For more information about auditing, click here.
Auditor passes are available in our online store. Teachers of registered students and volunteers receive free auditor passes for any day.
Auditor Passes: $40/day or $130/week
Become a Volunteer
If your teacher or parent is interested in volunteering at the Summer Festival, please visit this page or the Become a Volunteer webpage to learn more. You may also reach us at info@azpianoinstitute.org.
The success of the Summer Festival has always been a reflection of the wonderful volunteers that have contributed their time to this event!
The Arizona Piano Institute is very appreciative of the support provided by our generous donors.
Pianos for this year’s Summer Festival will be graciously provided by Phoenix College.
To read more about past editions of the API Summer Festival, use the links in the Summer Festival section of the main navigation menu.
Support API
Become a Friend of API and make enriching arts education possible for young students. Consider for instance donating money towards a scholarship to fund the Summer Festival registration fee for low-income students. API is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All gifts are tax deductible and we would love to hear from you.
We welcome comments and questions. You can contact us at info@azpianoinstitute.org and an API Board member will get back to you shortly.
We look forward to seeing you at API Summer Festival 2025!
The Arizona Piano Institute fosters enriching solo and collaborative experiences for young musicians and educators in Arizona through various piano-focused musical interactions with renowned performing artists and pedagogues.