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Carefully selected from the online preliminary round, twelve of the world’s top emerging pianists will be invited to New Orleans as semifinalists for a week of competing for cash, performance, and recording prizes totaling over $100,000. Prizes include a studio recording on the Steinway & Sons Label, concerto performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra; solo concerts at Kaufman Music Center | Merkin Hall in New York, on the University of New Orleans Musical Excursions Series, and others. Steinway & Sons the official piano of the New Orleans International Piano Competition.