Northern Lights Piano Festival & Competition –
2025 Online Edition
10 - 30 March 2025
ONLINE COMPETITION
Open to pianists and piano enthusiasts worldwide
APPLICATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
LATEST APPLICATION DATE: 20 FEBRUARY 2025
A Piano Festival for everyone, to encourage music-making for people all over the world
After the first 3 editions of The Northern Lights Piano Festival proved to be a big success, we are proud to now present the fourth edition. The festival was established to encourage music-making and piano-playing for people of all ages around the world.
The competition is open to pianists of all nationalities in an online format, with an array of different categories to suit every casual or serious pianist’s repertoire and goals. We welcome you to explore our festival and hope that you will join us on this musical journey!
Reactions and comments from earlier editions
“Thank you for running a well organized competition!”
- M.
“Thanks again for organizing this wonderful event and for giving thorough and encouraging feedback to the students! It’s not always the case around.”
- M.
“The importance on quality comments and feedback for developing piano players are most valuable. Northern Lights Piano Festival has created a beautiful platform to do exactly this, featuring extinguished and dedicated piano professionals, who with great personal communication encourage, motivate and give feedback to the participants”.
- C.
Congratulations on another stellar event!”
- E.
“Thank you all jury members for the valuable comments!”
- P.
“Of all the online competitions, Northern Lights Piano Festival is a shining aurora, spreading the love for music and piano playing.”
- A.
Members of our Adjudication Team
for Northern Lights Piano Festival – 2025 Online Edition
including members of the jury for the Nordic Junior Piano Competition in Arvika, Sweden
Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist (Finland/Sweden)
Aristo Sham (Hong Kong, China)
Nína Margrét Grimsdóttir (Iceland)
Tony Yike Yang (Canada)
Jon Dahlkvist (Sweden)
Tom Borrow (Israel - UK)
All the results of the 2024 Northern Lights Piano Festival is now on the Results page.
Videos of Gold prize winners to be seen on Videos Winners 2024
Arts Community Award 2024 (teacher award):
Elena Bai Pang
The Northern Lights piano festival is organized by the team of the
Nordic Junior Piano Competition
…another competition on site in Sweden, aiming to support high-level concert pianists. The Nordic Piano Competition has been organized since 2002 in order to promote piano culture in the Nordic countries, since 2017 based in Arvika Sweden.
Available only for Nordic citizens or residents of a Nordic country (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland or Faroe Islands)
Instruction video
Young Solveig explains how to record at home, upload on YouTube, as well as filling in the application form.