Kawai pianos for Thaxted Festival

25/01/2025

Kawai pianos for Thaxted Festival

Image © Kawai Pianos UK

We are delighted to announce a new partnership between Thaxted Festival and leading piano manufacturer Kawai. Major artists appearing at Thaxted Festival demand the very best from their instruments, and nowhere is this truer than of pianists and the pianos we provide.

We are fortunate that one of the leading suppliers for piano hire in the country, Empire Pianos, is based near us in Stebbing, Essex. Empire Pianos are experts who supply concert-level instruments to prestigious venues, including the Royal Albert Hall and Wigmore Hall in London, and across the UK.

Empire Pianos have supplied Kawai instruments to us for many years, and our artists and audiences have been consistently delighted by the quality of the instruments. From our 2025 season, Kawai UK will be supporting the supply of their pianos to Thaxted Festival through Empire Pianos.

Concert pianists demand the very best instruments. Artists who have appeared at the Festival in recent years include Isata Kanneh-Mason, Alim Beysembeyev, Eric Lu, Iyad Sughayer, Tom Poster, Martin Roscoe, Howard Shelley, and many more. In 2025 we welcome Leeds International first-prize winner Jaeden Izik-Dzurko, as well as Sholto Kynoch, Dylan Perez, Jonathan Ware and others.

Founded in Japan almost one hundred years ago, Kawai pianos are firmly established as leading makers who provide the very best instruments for the world’s concert halls as well as for domestic use.

Tom Haydney of Kawai Pianos UK, said: ‘Kawai are delighted to partner with Thaxted Festival and support the many renowned artists performing in this beautiful setting.’

We are grateful to Kawai UK for their commitment to Thaxted Festival, and look forward to a long and fruitful relationship.

Classico Latino at Thaxted Festival

Classico Latino at Thaxted Festival 2019 © Michael Bailie

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