Studio portrait of Matthew Mayer seated in black with a flat cap, hands raised mid-gesture, against a dark charcoal backdrop

#1 BILLBOARD-CHARTING PIANIST + COMPOSER

MATTHEW
MAYER

FROM A TOWN OF 700
TO A WORLD OF LISTENERS.

800M+ STREAMS20+ ALBUMS25+ YEARSINTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES
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ORIGIN / 01

CANISTOTA,
SOUTH DAKOTA

POPULATION: ~700

He started at 12.

A piano teacher lived across the street.

The piano was an old upright.

On Wednesday evenings, he played it in the waiting room of the Ortman Chiropractic Clinic.

Sometimes for a handful of people.

Matthew Mayer as a child standing beside an upright piano
Matthew Mayer performing piano on an outdoor community stage, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in 1998

An early performance, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 1998.

2 LISTENERS
800,000,000+STREAMS

The audience got a little bigger.

MAYER / THEN & NOW

Then.
Matthew Mayer as a young pianist in a tuxedo performing on an upright piano at a school gymnasium event
Now.
Matthew Mayer performing live on a grand piano before an audience in Kragujevac, Serbia

THE WORLD / 05

ONE PIANO.
ACROSS THE WORLD.

In 2026, the piano traveled from a town of 700 to stages across the United States, France, Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and Brazil.

SOUTH DAKOTA · VENICE · PARIS · SWITZERLAND · CROATIA · SERBIA · ITALY · VIENNA · POLIGNANO A MARE
Matthew Mayer performing on a grand piano on a stage bathed in golden candlelight, South Dakota

SOUTH DAKOTA

Matthew Mayer performing live at a grand piano before a seated audience in an ornate palazzo hall in Venice, Italy

VENICE

Matthew Mayer walking across the Trocadéro esplanade in Paris, with the Eiffel Tower rising behind him

PARIS

Matthew Mayer playing a portable keyboard on an alpine summit terrace, snowy peaks and a clear blue sky behind him, onlookers seated nearby

SWITZERLAND

Matthew Mayer taking a bow at a grand piano on a dark concert-hall stage beneath a starlit ceiling, Croatia

CROATIA

Matthew Mayer playing a grand piano and harmonica on stage before a red-lit curtain, Pancevo, Serbia

SERBIA

Matthew Mayer performing on a grand piano at night in a festival-lit town square in Ceglie Messapica, Italy, before a seated audience

ITALY

Matthew Mayer performing on a grand piano in an intimate hall in Vienna, Austria

VIENNA

Matthew Mayer playing a portable keyboard on the clifftop rocks at golden hour in Polignano a Mare, Puglia, Italy, with the whitewashed town rising behind him

POLIGNANO A MARE

2026 / JOURNEY

THE YEAR THE JOURNEY
WENT GLOBAL.

The official Matthew Mayer 2026 Tour poster — Matthew Mayer in a flat cap against a dark backdrop, surrounded by the tour's cities and dates: Venice, Vienna, Pancevo, Kragujevac, Paris, Gimmelwald, Schilthorn, Belgrade, Budapest, Ceglie Messapica, Zagreb, Cuiaba, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, London, and Sioux Falls
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800M+STREAMS
#1BILLBOARD
20+ALBUMS
25+YEARS
2×TELLY AWARD WINNER
GLOBALPERFORMANCES
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BILLBOARD / 08

A CAREER
STILL CLIMBING.

Mayer reached #1 on Billboard's New Age Albums chart in 2018. In 2026 he has charted on both Billboard's New Age and Children's Albums charts, with over 36 weeks on the New Age chart this year alone.

PRESS / 09

“Matthew Mayer,
A Prescient Pianist”— Rolling Stone
“There are artists whose music we encounter once, and there are artists whose musical paths gradually become part of our own. Matthew Mayer belongs to the second kind.”— Piano Revenge Magazine
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Matthew Mayer interviewed live on Serbia's national television, broadcast with the UŽIVO live badge

Live with Serbia's National TV — UŽIVO.

DOWNLOAD HI-RES
Elevation album cover: a snow-covered alpine summit under a deep blue sky, titled ELEVATION — Matthew Mayer feat. Matej Meštrović

ALBUM / 10

ELEVATION

[DRAFT WITH MATTHEW: what the album is, when it was made, and how its title arrived alongside this year's international chapter.]

Collaborators/producers: Croatia's Matej Meštrović · Serbia's Matej Jovanovic · and many more…

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FILM / 11

WATCH

Selected performances, [VERIFY: countries/years].

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CROATIA
02
ITALY
03
SWITZERLAND
04
SERBIA
05
USA

PRESS ASSETS / 12

PHOTOGRAPHY
& PRESS FILES.

FULL PRESS KITSHORT BIOLONG BIOMAIN PRESS PHOTO — HEROTECH RIDER

BIOGRAPHY / 13

THE STORY,
AT THREE LENGTHS.

Matthew Mayer grew up in Canistota, South Dakota — population 700 — and started playing piano at 12. Nearly three decades later, the independent pianist and composer is a #1 Billboard-charting artist with over 800 million streams, 20+ albums, and performances across the United States, Europe, and South America.

FOR BOOKERS / 14

A SCANNABLE
PERFORMANCE DOSSIER.

International performance experience

United States · Croatia · Italy · France · Switzerland · Serbia · Hungary

Format

Solo piano — 1 hour · Combined with another artist — 1 hour 30 minutes

Available formats

Piano festivals / music festivals · Intimate theaters · Private concerts · Unique locations capturing ultimate experiences

Selected past venues

Sioux Falls — Orpheum, Belbas Theater, Washington Pavilion

Croatia — National Theatres of Zagreb, Zadar, Split, Rijeka; Private Island of Brijuni, open-air concert in collaboration with other pianists

Venice — Casagredo Hotel

Budapest — Szimpla Kert Ruins

Ceglie Messapica — Piano Lab

Belgrade — Residence of Princess Ljubica, at Matej Jovanovic's Festival of Lanterns

…and many more

Technical requirements

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Booking contact

mayermusic@hotmail.com

BEYOND HIS OWN RECORDINGS / 15

SOLOPIANO.COM

Mayer founded SoloPiano.com in 2000, as a free platform for solo piano artists around the world. Pianists can join and build their own solo piano pages, share their music, and also be supported on playlists.

VISIT SOLOPIANO.COM

CURRENT & UPCOMING / 16

DECEMBER 22, 2026

MATTHEW MAYER:
A CHRISTMAS PIANO MIRACLE
— LIVE IN CONCERT

Mary W. Sommervold Hall, Washington Pavilion
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
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The Mary W. Sommervold Hall at the Washington Pavilion: tiers of purple seats beneath a red stage curtain, seen from the stage
Advertising artwork for Matthew Mayer: A Christmas Piano Miracle — Matthew Mayer seated in black with a flat cap before a gold-lit Christmas tree, titled Live, December 22nd, Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, SD

Mayer's 2026 Christmas Concert will take place at the Historic Washington Pavilion