Gustav Piekut

A series of competition wins and an internationally acclaimed debut recording have announced Gustav Piekut as a young pianist to be reckoned with. Still a student, his playing has been praised for its technique, intelligence, grace and power by critics in Denmark, Germany and the UK.

Gustav Piekut (b. 1995 in Aalborg) grew up in and around Kolding on Denmark’s mainland peninsular Jutland and made his debut as a soloist with the South Jutland Symphony Orchestra at the age of 12. In 2020 Piekut was awarded the P2 Talent Prize by the Danish Broadcast Corporation. He was a recipient of a 2018 Sonning Talent Award. He won the Audience Prize, Carl Nielsen Prize and the EMCY Prize at the Aarhus International Piano Competition in 2017, and was a prizewinner at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp in 2021, the Dublin International Piano Competition in 2015, the International Piano Forum in Poland in 2016 and at Astana Piano Passion in 2013. Piekut’s debut recording took on one of the touchstones of the piano literature, Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. ‘The young Dane proves himself worthy of the risk’, wrote the British magazine Pianist; ‘[he] provides the listener with an increasingly compelling journey through Beethoven’s challenging landscape.’ The recording won the Artistry Prize of the Association of Music Reviewers in Denmark.