Wanda Landowska Festival & Competition
XII WANDA LANDOWSKA
HARPSICHORD COMPETITION
22-24 MAY 2026, Terlizzi / Italy
Application Deadline 03 MAY 2026
The competition, dedicated to harpsichordists Wanda Landowska and Margherita Porfido, aims to promote music for the harpsichord, both historical and contemporary, and to stimulate new generations to study the harpsichord. The competition will take place from the 22nd to the 24th of May 2026 in Terlizzi (Bari, Italy).
Concerts Prizes will be awarded to the highest Absolute First scorers. The winners of the First Prize and the Absolute First Prize in the competition may be offered a variety of engagements. The engagements will be added after the competition.
About us
Wanda Landowska
Harpsichord Competition
The Terra Gialla Cultural Association was founded in 2005. For 15 years, it has been active in the field of music through publications, CDs, concerts and cultural events in Italy and abroad, with the specific aim of enhancing and promoting Apulian musical culture through concerts and productions at the most important European jazz and contemporary music festivals and opera houses.
Between 1993 and 2021, it organised, among others, the Talos Festival. 2012, the Wanda Landowska Festival was launched, and in 2013, the International Competition for Harpsichord Performance and Composition. Not surprisingly, the event bears the name of the famous Polish harpsichordist and teacher Wanda Landowska (1879-1959), the architect of a decisive revival of the harpsichord in the early 20th century.
