Piano Day 2025: Seaming To, Leon Michener, and Adam Weikert

Piano Day is a global event held annually on the 88th day of the year, reflecting the number of keys on a piano.

Founded in 2015 , it has gained worldwide recognition. Each year, it inspires a variety of special events, including concerts both live and online, as well as radio shows, podcasts, and playlists.

Celebrate Piano Day Eve at Attenborough Arts, with three incredibly unique takes on the instrument, its origins, and its future. These include:

Seaming To

“Seaming’s vocal styling is impressively kaleidoscopic; haunting at times, vulnerable at others offering a desolate calm…both a moving and virtuoso conversion.” – Clash

“An astonishing vocalist of haunting emotional power” – The Guardian

“One of the most captivating and unclassifiable performers on the scene.” – Financial Times

“Seaming To has an extraordinary presence, and creates songs as delicately nostalgic as an old photo” – Daily Telegraph

“The voice of the 21st century…” – BBC Radio One

Composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and producer Seaming To was born in London and comes from a family of concert pianists. She studied at the Royal Northern College of Music and during her time in Manchester began performing and releasing albums with supergroups Homelife (Ninja Tune) and Graham Massey’s Toolshed. She has appeared on BBC Radio (Radio 1/Radio 3/6 Music) and performed and toured the UK, Europe and the Far East.

To has been described as ‘the voice of a 21st Century’ (Radio1), and an artist that is truly ‘avant garde’ (Robert Wyatt). Her experimental ethos and mastery across a variety of instruments has enabled her to collaborate with some of the most respected and radical artists of this decade, particularly in electronic, clas-sical and experimental genres.

She has performed and recorded with the likes of Robert Wyatt, Jean Claude Vannier, Herbaliser, Punchdrunk Theatre, James Ford (SMD), Leila (Warp rec-ords), electronic outfit Funckarma, Michael England, Forkbeard Fantasy Theatre, avant garde pianist Leon Michener, Bordeaux Symphony Orchestra, composer Larry Goves, The Cinematic Orchestra, pianist Matthew Bourne and Mayming, an experimental duo with cellist Semay Wu. Seaming has composed music for film and theatre which includes Stormbringer at the National Theatre; Jenna Collins’ film More Real Than The Every Day World (of which toured numerous venues in the UK); film maker and artist Jason Yeo-mans; Forkbeard Fantasy animations and theatre productions of Invisible Bon-fires, Rough Magyck, The Colour of Nonsense; soundtrack for Maya Deren’s At Land (performed at the Barbican) and Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon, per-formed live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall for Birds Eye View’s Sounds and Silents, Latitude Festival and Opera North Howard Assembly Rooms in Leeds; a live soundtrack to New York artist Victoria Keddie’s Test Patterns for the closing night of the Basquiat: Boom For Real Retrospective at Barbican 2018; soundtrack for Uzbek film director Saodat Ismailova’s political film Her Right premiered at RNCM in Manchester 2020; film maker Cam Archer’s His Image that premiered at Museum of Modern Art, New York in 2021; soundtrack work for Aeternus Dance Company 2022; and vocal work with Fabula Dance Collective at Sad-lers Wells in 2022.

Leon Michener

“Leon Michener has created something truly original” – Observer Newspaper

“An innovative and absorbing concept, carried through by Michener with no mean insight and technical finish” – Gramophone Magazine

“A pianist with extraordinary control of the instrument” – Wire Magazine

Leon Michener is a London-born pianist whose music spans recordings of 20th-century classical music through to free jazz. Acquiring a small Moog synthesiser at the age of fourteen by saving a year’s worth of pocket money led to his passion for combining acoustic keyboards with live electronics. After graduating from Trinity College of Music he constructed his Klavikon system, a combination of piano, amplification, found objects, feedback and analog processing. Augmenting the 88 keys with his own inventions and found objects – custom-made microphones, toys, vibrators, and lots of blu-tak allowed him to deliver cascading batteries of percussion, sub-basses and dark abstractsoundscapes. He has recorded on numerous labels, including a solo Klavikon album on the Nonclassical record label. His latest research has led him to resurrect and explore obsolete keyboard instruments such as the Clavichord, Dulcitone, and the Yamaha CP80 electro-acoustic piano.

For this performance, he will be playing on an amplified portable Clavichord, prepared with found objects, which has also been “hacked” to include a custom-assembled electro-acoustic-mechanical percussion instrument in its lid.

Adam Weikert

“One to Watch” – Folk Radio UK

Leicester based Multi-Instrumentalist, Producer, and Artist Adam Weikert has been writing, recording, and performing under several names for over two decades. With around 40 Million streams on his solo works alone, his projects range from contemplative neoclassical musings to caustic punk anthems, and everything in- between. With creative projects receiving Radio Play on BBC Radio 1, 3, and 6, as well as his music being used in film (Peter von Kant) and Animation, his work brings a diverse and innovative spark to every project.

Returning to the stage for the first time in years, his expanded setup includes graphics tablets, banjos, pianos, asynchronous loops and more.