I am very excited to share with you Pianofest's vision for our upcoming 2021 summer season. After a year away, Pianofest is returning for a four-week season starting in August at the Avram Theater and other venues, in front of live audiences. Unlike previous summers, the performers will be drawn from distinguished Pianofest alumni, and the size of the audiences will be limited by C.D.C. protocols.

Pianofest's story began 30 years ago as such a creative vision—that of a community of pianists and piano-lovers surrounded by nature's wonder of the East End. The inspiration was Paul Schenly's.

Greetings from all of us at Pianofest for a healthy, prosperous, and music-filled new year! Pianofest is excited to begin preparing for our 30th anniversary season. As we look forward from this cold weather to the warmer days of summer and concerts at Avram Theater in Southampton and at St. Luke's in East Hampton, we are happy to share some updates and profiles of our alums and board members. We look forward to keeping in touch with you and to seeing you this summer!

Greetings to all of you in our Pianofest family, with our first summer session well underway for an exciting summer! As our musical season begins, we wish you many inspiring discoveries and new impressions, as well as a rejuvenating holiday. Here in our second quarterly newsletter, we hope you will have a look at our alum and board member snapshots, and glance at our concert listing and participant roster. Also, please take a moment to visit our Facebook page, linked below: we have all our current photos there, as well as fun video introductions to our festival participants. Together with all of us here at Pianofest, I am personally looking forward to seeing as many of you as I can this summer!