The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025

Community. Creativity. Impact.

The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025

The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025 seeks to explore the challenges and opportunities facing our international community at this inflection point for the profession.

Returning to the Westin Chicago Lombard Hotel (Lombard, IL), The Piano Conference includes a new, innovative in-person summit and conference. The opening one-day summit engages the full community and provides a gathering for all to collectively share, dialogue, and exchange ideas. The facilitated summit will include a design-thinking process to collectively consider the immediate challenges, opportunities, and global impact of our field. Three main areas of focus include: 1) Teacher education curriculum 2) Teaching practices 3) New professionals. Outcome goals of the participatory summit are a vision document and action plan for the profession at large.

The Piano Conference includes three additional days of selected conference sessions as well as keynotes, concerts, and curated PEDx. The conference will also include an online event on June 7-8, 2025 to facilitate broad and international access. Multiple calls for participation include peer-reviewed proposals, teaching demonstrations, performances, e-posters, and Collegiate Connections projects.

Call for Participation

The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025 advances and supports the international field of piano teaching, learning, and performing. To innovate for the future, we seek programming in a variety of formats and are currently accepting submissions of:

Collegiate Connections projects
E-posters
Performances
Teaching demonstration videos

The deadline to submit is Monday, March 31, 2025, at 11:59PM PDT.

Collegiate Connections

E-Posters

Performances

Teaching Demonstrations

Register Now for 2025!

Join us for The Piano Conference: NCKP 2025 as we gather together in person and online. The Piano Conference seeks to explore the challenges and opportunities facing our international community at this inflection point for the profession.

Returning to the Westin Chicago Lombard Hotel (Lombard, IL), July 23-26, 2025, The Piano Conference includes an opening one-day summit that engages the full community, and three days of selected conference sessions, keynotes, concerts, and curated PEDx. The conference will also include an online event on June 7-8, 2025 to facilitate broad and international access.

In-Person Conference: Wednesday-Saturday, July 23-26, 2025
Online Event: Saturday-Sunday, June 7-8, 2025

Registration is now open for our in-person conference and online event.

To accommodate the proposal review process, the detailed conference program will be published in February 2025.