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.

2026 / JOURNEY

THE YEAR THE JOURNEY
WENT GLOBAL.

SOUTH DAKOTAVENICEPARISSWITZERLANDCROATIASERBIAITALYVIENNAPOLIGNANO A MARE
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.

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

ALBUM / 10

ELEVATION

Some journeys
are measured
in miles.

Others
are measured
in who we become.

ELEVATION is an exploration of both.

LISTEN

FILM / 11

WATCH

Selected performances.

01
CROATIA
02
ITALY
03
SWITZERLAND
04
SERBIA
05
USA

PRESS ASSETS / 12

PHOTOGRAPHY
& PRESS FILES.

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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 / Venice — Casagredo Hotel / Budapest — Szimpla Kert Ruins / Ceglie Messapica — Piano Lab / Belgrade — Residence of Princess Ljubica, 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.

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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