Since 2015, Piano Day has grown into a global celebration of the piano, bringing like-minded people together in an ever-expanding range of settings: from concert halls and living rooms to cafés and churches; from outdoor performances in forests and public squares to online broadcasts connecting listeners across continents.  Each year, Piano Day reimagines where and how piano music can be experienced, creating moments of focus, creativity, and connection.

Reflecting on the many spaces where Piano Day has taken place, LEITER proudly presents ‘Piano Day: Places’. The fifth official companion album will be released on March 27, 2026, and features eleven exclusive, previously unreleased tracks by celebrated artists including Alfa Mist, Felicia Atkinson, Ralph Heidel, and Viktor Orri Árnason.

This year’s compilation explores how environments — lived in, passed through, remembered, or imagined — shape the way we listen and create. While the piano remains the central voice, many of the artists complement its familiar sound with field recordings, ambient textures, and other instruments, mapping their personal geography across the octaves.

Some works draw directly from specific geographies like coastlines, islands and vast skies, translating natural soundscapes, movement and cultural histories into piano-led textures interwoven with field recordings. Others turn inward, treating home and intimate rooms as sites of memory, where everyday sounds, familiar voices and nostalgia shape subtle, recurring patterns. For some composers, place is less stable, revealing tension and transience as sound becomes a way to navigate displacement, fragility and the search for balance. Several pieces move beyond physical geography altogether, considering place as a vessel for remembrance, chance encounters or shared, borderless spaces, where listening itself becomes a way of inhabiting the world.

Together, the pieces on ‘Piano Day: Places’ form a connected journey through spaces both real and imagined — from landscapes and rooms to fleeting moments and memories. Throughout, the piano guides us as both narrator and witness, its versatility capturing the distinctive lived experience of each artist.

‘Piano Day: Places’ will be available for streaming and download on all digital platforms from March 27, 2026. The first single, ‘Like Something’ by Alfa Mist, is out now.