Don't miss out on PianoTell's 8th recital! 🎱
This is an opportunity to share your music if you are a seasoned player, showcase your progress milestone by milestone if you're an active learner, stay motivated and on track, or simply contribute to the community fun! One might even argue that performing is truly what it's all about.
For inspiration and a general idea of the recital format, just take a look at past Quarterly Recitals:
Everyone is welcome and what you submit is up to you.
For questions or comments or updates on the recital, please go here instead.
Submit your performance now!
To submit your performance, simply reply to this post and fill in the details.
If you don't yet have an account on PianoTell, the sign up process is very easy and completely free. Just look for "Sign Up" at the top of the site.
Your submission will only be visible to yourself and the recital coordinators until the recital goes live on 15 May 2026.
You can look at PianoTell Recital #7 to get an idea of what the recital will look like when it goes live.
Template
**Performer:** Name or Alias, Location, Experience.
**Piece:** Title by Composer
**Comment Policy:** (See below)
Replace this line with the link to your performance.
**Source of music:** ...
**Instrument:** ...
**Recording method:** ...
**Additional info:** ...
You may use the following template to specify the Comment Policy:
- No Comments Please!
- Positive comments only (no criticism or suggestions for improvement please).
- Positive comments and suggestions for improvement (no direct criticism please).
- All comments; anything goes!
Link To Your Performance:
- If you have a video, that's great! Otherwise, audio-only is fine.
- Upload your performance to YouTube, Vimeo, Gumlet, SproutVideo, Rumble, SoundCloud, or Google Drive.
- Your media may be public or unlisted but private will not work.
- The direct link needs to be posted so that the performance is embedded on PT.
- Ask for help!
- Dropbox option: If hosting your performance using YouTube or other service is not possible, then you may submit your audio (e.g. MP3) or video file (e.g. MP4) here instead. In your recital submission, you can just say you uploaded your performance to Dropbox.
Submitters are requested to keep their performances up for at least a period of 90 days and as long as possible after that.
Do you want to host your performance elsewhere? Please let me know so that it can be tested.
Example
I hope Tom doesn't mind that I used his video purely for illustrative purposes with some fictional details.
**Performer:** Tom from California, USA. I've been playing piano on and off since I was a kitten!
**Piece:** Serious Piece No. 1 in C# by Jerry
**Comment Policy:** All comments; anything goes!
https://youtu.be/QpEfHVFilRc
**Source of music:** This was composed and shared with me by my friend Jerry.
**Instrument:** NY Steinway D
**Recording method:** iPhone X with large condenser microphones.
**Additional info:** This wasn't the performance I had exactly planned. A lot went wrong, but I dealt with it in the best way I could. Regardless, I'm quite pleased with how this turned out and I believe the audience enjoyed it. Thanks for listening!
Performer: Tom from California, USA. I've been playing piano on and off since I was a kitten!
Piece: Serious Piece No. 1 in C# by Jerry
Comment Policy: All comments; anything goes!
Source of music: This was composed and shared with me by my friend Jerry.
Instrument: NY Steinway D
Recording method: iPhone X with large condenser microphones.
Additional info: This wasn't the performance I had exactly planned. A lot went wrong, but I dealt with it in the best way I could. Regardless, I'm quite pleased with how this turned out and I believe the audience enjoyed it. Thanks for listening!
Have fun!