Hong Kong Piano Music Association is a non-profit organization established in 1988, with the goal of promoting piano music and piano performance, is hosting master-classes, lectures, recitals, student concerts of famous pianists around the world as well as in Hong Kong by promoting the piano performances in Hong Kong to the world class level.
The 1st Hong Kong-Asia Piano Open Competition was hosted by this association in 1989, and is held every other year as well as being the most prestigious and influential piano competition in Asia. Dame Fanny Waterman, who is the founder of the UK’s Leeds competition is the Honorary Chairman of Jury and Lang Lang, Yundi Li who are world famous pianists from China are on the advisory committee. As evident, it is a world class competition with a goal of acting as a platform in serving as the place of cultural exchange of countless pianists around the world.