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International Piano Week, 27 July–2 August 2026
OrkesterEfterskolen Holstebro, Denmark
The most inspiring get-together for pianists
Faculty and Artists
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![Dina Yoffe]()
Dina Yoffe
EuroArts Academy
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![Christopher Park]()
Christopher Park
Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo
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![Poom Prommachart]()
Poom Prommachart
Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts
University of the Arts Singapore
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![Jean-Baptiste Doulcet]()
Jean-Baptiste Doulcet
École Normale de Musique de Paris
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![Tove Lønskov]()
Tove Lønskov
Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen
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![Penelope Roskell]()
Penelope Roskell
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London
Recitals
Tuesday 28 July: Dina Yoffe
Wednesday 29 July: Poom Prommachart
Thursday 30 July: Jean-Baptiste Doulcet (improvisation)
Friday 31 July: Christopher Park
Saturday 1 August: TBA
Recitals take place at 19.30 at Holstebro Musikskole, Bisgårdmark 16, Holstebro.
Tickets are sold at the entrance.
DKK 200 (students DKK 100). Pass to all recitals: DKK 500 (students DKK 250)
Masterclasses
Tuesday 28 July–Saturday 1 August
Professors Yoffe, Park, Prommachart, Doulcet, Roskell and Lønskov
OrkesterEfterskolen, Bisgårdmark 18, Holstebro
Teacher Training
Tuesday 28 July–Saturday 1 August
Professor Penelope Roskell.
OrkesterEfterskolen, Bisgårdmark 18, Holstebro
International Piano Week 2026
EPTA Denmark proudly presents International Piano Week, a week-long festival for young pianists, piano teachers and piano lovers, combining high-level performance, pedagogy and community.
The festival offers three distinct programmes: Masterclass, Teacher Training and Observer.
Masterclass participants (ages 9–28) receive three individual lessons in open class and have access to dedicated practice rooms throughout the week. Teacher Training participants follow an intensive five-day course in piano pedagogy with Professor Penelope Roskell. All participants enjoy free access to masterclasses, recitals, workshops and social gatherings.
Evening piano recitals take place from 28 July to 1 August. Each recital opens with a mixed programme featuring participating pianists, followed by a 50–60 minute recital by a member of the faculty.
With a maximum of 50 participants, International Piano Week offers a supportive and friendly environment: large enough to feel lively and vibrant, yet intimate enough for everyone to get to know one another and feel at ease among peers.
The festival takes place in beautiful surroundings at OrkesterEfterskolen in Holstebro. The school features a newly inaugurated concert hall, teaching facilities and practice rooms. All participants receive full board and may choose between single or double rooms.
International Piano Week 2026 is proudly sponsored by Augustinus Fonden, Færch Fonden, Danish Arts Foundation, Lemvigh-Müller Fonden, Knud Højgaards Fond, Danish Musician Union and Juhl-Sørensen A/S.
Festival programme
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Monday 27 July
Arrival.
Evening: Folk dance
Late evening: Meet and greet
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Tuesday 28 July
Morning: Masterclasses & Teacher Training
Early afternoon: Masterclasses
Late afternoon: Q&A with professors (free admission)
Evening: Recital with participants and Dina Yoffe
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Wednesday 29 July
Morning: Masterclasses & Teacher Training
Early afternoon: Masterclasses
Late afternoon: Yoga
Evening: Recital with participants and prof. Poom Prommachart
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Thursday 30 July
Morning: Masterclasses & Teacher Training
Afternoon: Bus excursion
Evening: Recital with participants and prof. Jean-Baptiste Doulcet
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Friday 31 July
Morning: Masterclasses & Teacher Training
Early afternoon: Masterclasses
Late afternoon: Sight-Reading Workshop
Evening: Recital with participants and prof. Christopher Park
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Saturday 1 August
Morning: Masterclasses & Teacher Training
Early afternoon: Masterclasses
Late afternoon: Lecture-Recital with Poom Prommachart — Reframing Virtuosity as Creative Inquiry
Evening: Recital with participants and professors
Late evening: Reception and party
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Sunday 2 August
Morning: Departure
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Programme subject to change.
Meet the Faculty
Including top prize winners from the world’s leading piano competitions, we are proud to present an outstanding faculty of internationally acclaimed pianists and piano teachers.
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Masterclass for students aged 15–26 years
Dina Yoffe began her musical journey at the Emil Darzin's Special School of Music in Riga, Latvia. She continued her education at the Central Music School in Moscow, studying under Professor Vera Gornostaeva. Yoffe has won top prizes at the Schumann and Chopin International Piano Competitions and has performed at music festivals across Europe, Japan, and the United States. She has collaborated with prestigious orchestras such as the Israel Philharmonic, NHK, and the Moscow Philharmonic, working with esteemed conductors like Zubin Mehta, Neville Marriner, and Dmitri Kitayenko. Yoffe's recitals have taken place at renowned venues including the Barbican Centre in London, Suntory Hall in Tokyo and the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory. She is also a dedicated educator, conducting masterclasses worldwide and serving as a guest professor at esteemed institutions such as Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music in London. Yoffe has also served as a jury member for international piano competitions, including the Cleveland, Hamamatsu, and Chopin competitions, and has played a crucial role in nurturing young talents. Many of her students have gone on to win national and international piano competitions and are now teaching at prestigious music academies worldwide.
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Masterclass for students aged 15–26 years
Born in 1992, the versatile French pianist, Jean-Baptiste Doulcet is also an accomplished improviser and composer, and a recipient of Prizes in international competitions such as Marguerite Long (4th Prize and Audience Prize), Clara Haskil (Modern Times award) and Nordic Piano Competition (2nd Prize). One of the Rising Stars of the young generation of French pianists, Jean-Baptiste released his first CD in 2017 with a Beethoven/Schuman programme, followed by Schumann and Liszt, all completed with his own compositions or improvisations. Jean-Baptiste Doulcet performs extensively in France, in such festivals as La Roque d'Anthéron, Piano en Valois, Piano aux Jacobins, Chopin Festival in Nohant and in Scandinavia, where he resided and studied. The programme of his next CD will reflect this particular interest in the music of the North. Jean-Baptiste Doulcet graduated from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris in piano, improvisation and chamber music and later studied with Emile Naoumoff, Dmitri Bashkirov, Epifanio Comis and Alexey Lebedev. He is also a very prolific composer, with no less than twenty works in his catalogue comprising music for solo instruments, chamber music groups and ensembles.
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Teacher Training
Masterclass for students aged 9–26 years
Penelope Roskell is equally renowned as an outstanding performer of international calibre, and as an inspirational teacher, writer and presenter. Her award-winning book, The Complete Pianist, from healthy technique to natural artistry, was described as ‘an encyclopaedic masterpiece of pianistic wisdom’ by The Piano magazine USA.
Penelope Roskell is Professor of Piano and Piano Pedagogy at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London. As Chair of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA UK), she gives presentations at institutions and conferences worldwide.
She is a world-leading specialist in healthy piano playing and has helped numerous pianists recover from injury. She works as piano advisor to the British Association for Performing Arts Medicine, where she holds a clinic for pianists experiencing tension or injuries.
As a piano soloist, Penelope has played in major concert halls in more than thirty countries.
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Masterclass for students aged 9–26 years
Tove Lønskov was trained at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, where she studied under Alma Jørgensen and Georg Vasarhelyi. Further studies took her to Paris with Magda Tagliaferro and Vlado Perlemuter, to Rome with Guido Agosti, and to the legendary German pianist Wilhelm Kempff.
As a soloist, she has performed most of the major classical piano concertos with Danish symphony orchestras, collaborating with conductors such as Uri Segal, Thomas Bricetti, Jorma Panula, Zdenek Macal, and Avi Ostrowsky. She has also given numerous recitals, with a particular focus on Danish composer Poul Schierbeck, whose complete piano works she has performed and recorded.
Lønskov is equally renowned as a chamber musician, having played with internationally celebrated artists, including flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal and violinist Leonid Kogan. Her longstanding partnership with Hungarian flautist András Adorján recently resulted in Dannemark Dannemark!, a CD of Danish flute and piano music.
She has also achieved great success working with singers, leading to concerts and recordings of works by Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, Grieg, Nielsen, and others. Notably, her collaborations include Winterreise with baritone Johan Reuter and Love Songs with tenor Mathias Hedegaard.
A significant part of her life has been her piano duo with husband Rodolfo Llambías. Together, they’ve recorded acclaimed works by Debussy, Schubert, Brahms, and Messiaen. Lønskov remains a passionate educator and has taught many of Denmark’s finest young pianists. She is a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog.
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Masterclass for students aged 15–26 years
“Christopher Park is a pianist who captivates with his fascinating technical mastery, astounding musical maturity, and a particularly intense performance style” – this was the explanation given by the jury by the Stiftung Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival upon awarding Christopher Park the renowned Leonard Bernstein Award 2014.
Numerous important ensembles have engaged Park, a Bamberg-born musician, including the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, both Frankfurt and North German Radio Symphony Orchestras, WDR Sinfonieorchester, Deutsche Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, Magdeburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Philharmonic, Spanish National Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Galicia, Cape Philharmonic Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, China NCPA Orchestra, Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, Seoul Philharmonic, Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, Chambre Orchestra of Lausanne, English Chamber Orchestra, Munich Symphony Orchestra and Bamberg Symphony, to name but a few. In November 2014, Christopher Park stood in for Emanuel Ax to great success with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, only a few months after his widely celebrated début in Hamburg.
So far he has worked with conductors such as Christoph Eschenbach, Paavo Jarvi, Sebastian Weigle, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Ion Marin, James Gaffigan, Zsolt Hamar, Roman Kofman, Nicholas Milton, Kimbo Ishii, Paul Daniel and Dimitri Kitaenko. He has given concerts in Europe, Asia, America and New Zealand and played at events including the Ravinia Festival, the Lucerne Festival, the Klavierfestival Ruhr, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Rheingau Music Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Quincena Musical de San Sebastián and the Burgos International Music Festival.
Christopher Park has been chosen as „Rising Star“ by the ECHO (European Concert Hall Organisation). Therefore he debuted in Europe’s renowned concert halls in London, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Vienna, Stockholm, Barcelona, Budapest, Lisboa and others.
Alongside his engagements as a soloist, for which he has gained recognition in the form of various scholarships and awards (e.g. the Rheingau Music Festival to support new talent), he is passionately involved in chamber music. He made his début in the Brahms Saal of the Vienna Musikverein at the end of 2014 with the Küchl Quartet, which comprises members of the Vienna Philharmonic. After that the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra nominated him as their candidate for the Credit-Suisse Award. He has also played with Avi Avital, Marc Bouchkov, Pablo Ferrandez, Alban Gerhardt, Richard O’Neill, Leticia Moreno, Adolfo Gutiérrez Arenas, the Pavel-Haas Quartet and accompanied singers including Sumi Jo. He has collaborated with John Neumeier on various projects such as Stravinsky’s Petrushka Variations, Schumann’s Kinderszenen and suites by Johann Sebastian Bach.
His solo CDs with Deutsche Grammophon, Oehms Classics, Ondine, and Capriccio have been praised by critics as 'excellent in every way,' 'brilliant recording,' and 'reference recording' by magazines such as Gramophone and Pizzicato.
Christopher Park was influenced by two major musical traditions during his studies: the Russian school of Lev Oborin with Lev Natochenny as well as the German school of Wilhelm Kempff with Joachim Volkmann.
Park was teaching in Frankfurt/Germany at both, the Conservatory and the University of Music and Performing Arts. Since 2021 he is professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo.
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Masterclass for students aged 9–26 years
Born in Bangkok, Poom Prommachart is a pianist and educator. He is currently the Head of Department Junior Music at the School of Young Talents and a member of Piano Faculty at the School of Music, Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Singapore.
Poom earned his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees from the Royal College of Music, London, where he received the Tagore Gold Medal from King Charles III. He also studied at the Moscow Conservatory and completed his Doctor of Music at the University of Montreal, where he was named to the Rector’s List of Honour as the most outstanding graduate of his cohort.
His international career began with a Gold Medal at the 5th Isidor Bajić International Piano Competition in 2010, leading to performances with the Kazakhstan Philharmonic, Montevideo Philharmonic, Worthing Symphony Orchestra, Thailand Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and others. His debut album on Champs Hill Records featuring Medtner, Liszt, and Scriabin was praised by the American Record Guide for its “refined artistry and poetic insight.”
A passionate advocate of Carl Vine’s music, Poom premiered Three Fantasies with support from UOB and was praised by the composer for his “unique passion and intensity,” “formidable technical mastery,” and “sonorous serenity” in interpreting the Piano Sonata No. 1.
His recordings of works by Medtner, Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff for Champs Hill Records have been widely praised internationally. Most recently, a live recording of Carl Vine’s Three Fantasias, made at HKMUSE, has been released by Faber Music, London.
He has given masterclasses and research presentations at institutions including the Kazakhstan National Conservatory, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and the University of Hong Kong. Poom was an Elite Fellow at the University of Malaya and the first Asian piano professor appointed to the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA), Denmark.
Most recently, Poom was awarded the 2026 Christine Ip International Faculty Award by the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, Singapore.
Rates
Included in all programmes
Accommodation in shared double room (for other options, see below)
Full board provided by our chefs at Instinct Dining
Tickets to all five evening recitals
Access to all masterclass lessons
Participation in all workshops and social events
Afternoon bus excursion in the local area
Access to practice rooms
Programmes
Masterclasses (9–28 years)
Includes three lessons with professors from our faculty and the opportunity to perform at our evening recitals.
DKK 6,300
Members of EPTA Denmark DKK 6,000.
Teacher Training
Join our one-week piano pedagogy course with Penelope Roskell, based on the principles of the Roskell Method. Sessions take place daily from 09:00 to 12:00.
DKK 6,300
Members of EPTA Denmark DKK 6,000.
Masterclasses (15–28 years) + Teacher Training
For young piano teachers. Take part in our one-week course in piano pedagogy with Penelope Roskell every morning, and receive three masterclass lessons with professors from our faculty in the afternoon.
DKK 8,300
Members of EPTA Denmark DKK 8,000.
Observer
Observe our masterclasses and recitals, and join our workshops and social events during the week.
DKK 4,300
Members of EPTA Denmark DKK 4,000.
Accommodation Options
Shared double room: Included in participation fee
Single room: + DKK 1,000
Parent/guardian sharing double room with participant: + DKK 3,000
Shorter Stays
Want to attend the festival, but unable to stay the whole week? We’re happy to help!
Recital tickets, masterclass passes and single meals are sold on site. For shorter overnight stays, please fill in the application form at the bottom of the page, including your arrival departure dates and times, and we’ll put together a package for you.
Single night with breakfast (one person in single room): DKK 500
Single-day pass to masterclasses: DKK 300 (students DKK 150)
Half-day pass to masterclasses: DKK 200 (students DKK 100)
Single-day pass to teacher training: 500 DKK
Single meal: DKK 100
Ticket to one recital: DKK 200 (students DKK 100)
Pass to all recitals: DKK 500 (students DKK 250)
Application Deadline: 10 June 2026
Application form is available at the bottom of this page, and are processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Apply today, as applications will close as soon as all places have been taken.
FAQs
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You can specify your preferered professors in the application form. While we cannot guarantee that you will be allocated to your professors of choice, we will do our best.
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All teaching, announcements and events are in English.
Participants aged 9–14 may opt to receive their lessons in Danish.
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We offer single as well as double rooms. If there is someone you wish to share room with, please specify in the application form.
Rooms are spread across a number of smaller houses, containing six rooms and two bathrooms in each.
Please note that you will need to bring your own bed linen and towels for your stay.
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Please specify any allergies in the application form, and we will inform the kitchen.
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OrkesterEfterskolen is situated in Holstebro, a town of nearly 37,000 inhabitants in the mid-west of Jutland.
By train/bus:
Holstebro Railway Station is a 20-minute walk from OrkesterEfterskolen. The station is connected to the InterCity railway system, and serves a number of local and regional bus lines.
Visit rejseplanen.dk to plan your journey and book tickets.
By air:
The nearest international airport i Billund Airport, which serves selected destinations across Europe. From Billund Airport, bus lines 43 and 119 connect to the InterCity railway system, from where you can take a direct train to Holstebro. The journey from Billund Airport to Holstebro Station takes 1h30m–2h10m.
Alternatively, Copenhagen Airport serves a broader variety of destinations. The airport connects to Holstebro on a one-stop journey by train of about 4 hours.
By car:
Distances from major cities:
Aarhus: 120 km
Aalborg: 135 km
Copenhagen: 344 km
Hamburg: 377 kmThe address of OrkesterEfterskolen is:
Bisgårdmark 18
7500 Holstebro
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Please send all enquiries to festival director Dr Balder Neergaard at bn (a) epta.dk or fill in the form on our contact page, and we will get in touch with you shortly.
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Please fill in the application form at the bottom of this page. Make sure to have your credit card ready, as you will pay the full participation fee at checkout.
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If you’ve been accepted to International Piano Week, but are unable to come, please contact Festival Director Dr Balder Neergaard as soon as possible at bn (a) epta.dk.
We may reimburse part of your participation fee depending on the date of your cancellation:
Cancellations until 15 May: 50% of the participation fee
Cancellations on or after 16 May: No refund.
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International Piano Week is an annual piano festival organised by EPTA Denmark. We are the Danish branch of European Piano Teachers Association, an international society of pianists, piano teachers, students and music lovers. Our goal is to strengthen the interest for the piano and its literature, and to support the further development of piano education in Denmark.
Organising Committee
Dr Balder Neergaard (Festival Director and President of EPTA Denmark)
Vagn Sørensen (Vice-President of EPTA Denmark)
Lise Andersen (Treasurer of EPTA Denmark)
Tony Nguyen (Committee member of EPTA Denmark)
Carsten Møller (Deputy committee member of EPTA Denmark)