Piano Days

Piano Days is an annual two-day festival of the piano held at Megaron, the Athens Concert Hall, on the last weekend of January, setting recitals, multi-piano performances, and events for children and adults across the building’s halls and foyers. The 2027 edition is expected in late January 2027; the Megaron publishes each edition’s exact dates with its season programme. The festival has run every January since 2023.

The 2026 edition ran on 24 and 25 January and brought at least 20 pianists to the hall’s stages and foyers. Francesco Piemontesi played Schubert and Liszt, Lukas Sternath Schubert and Prokofiev, and Piandaemonium, a collective of 12 pianists at 6 pianos marking 25 years since its founding, performed works written or arranged for the formation. The programme set the recitals alongside a piano-history quiz for adults, a screening of the animated film Magic Piano with Chopin played live, and young soloists performing in the foyer spaces.

Earlier editions kept to the same late-January weekend. The 2025 festival ran on 25 and 26 January, with the Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan among its soloists, and the 2023 edition, held on 28 and 29 January, began the Megaron’s association with the Steinway Prizewinner Concerts Network, which presents prizewinning soloists of the major international competitions.