New York's only festival of contemporary solo piano music is back for its fifth season, with an expanded roster of 10 "front-rank soloists" (The New Yorker) presenting 29 recent works by contemporary classical masters & emerging composers along with jazz luminaries.

Join us at our new venue - the vibrant and hip Le Poisson Rouge - for a "pianophile extravaganza", where our "posse of leading ivory merchants" (TimeOut New York) performs "a remarkable range of contemporary styles." (The New York Times)

CONCERT VENUE
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Sullivan & Thompson Street)

Tickets: $20 general admission.
All concerts start at 7:30PM, doors open at 6:30PM.

Please call 212/505-3474 for information.

NEW YORK TIMES REVIEW
The State of the Piano in Five Diverse Accounts

"The Keys to the Future Festival, founded in 2005 by the pianist and composer Joseph Rubenstein, celebrates the contemporary piano repertory with a refreshing absence of dogma. This is a festival with no stylistic axes to grind: densely chromatic works, post-Minimalist scores and arrangements of Radiohead songs are offered side by side and given equal attention by a roster of respected new-music pianists who apparently find this little three-day festival rewarding enough that they come back every year." Read the entire review »

"New works for solo piano, usually tucked into recitalists' standard-repertory programs, are the entire focus of this groundbreaking festival... a remarkable lineup of contemporary and late twentieth-century works."
Russell Platt, The New Yorker

“New York is hardly lacking in music festivals of all sizes and persuasions, so it takes a lot to make an up-and-comer stand out. Keys to the Future, founded by the pianist and composer Joseph Rubenstein in 2005, has carved a valuable niche for itself by focusing on contemporary piano music.”
Steve Smith, The New York Times

"A wonderful survey of recent and lesser known piano compositions, admirably performed throughout with attention and intense emotion... a program rich in compelling melodic and textural content."
Jeff Harrington, Sequenza 21

"Keys to the Future offers a varied and wonderful program which is opening the future to our ears."
David Garland, WNYC 93.9FM