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About Gustav Piekut, Piano The young Danish pianist Gustav Piekut has recorded internationally acclaimed albums, including Towards the Flame (works by Scriabin and Langgaard, Naxos 8.574312), which was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards 2022. Recent highlights include soloist performances with the Copenhagen Philharmonic, Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Magdeburgische Philharmonie, Slovak State Philharmonic Košice and the Sønderjyllands Symfoniorkester. Piekut is a laureate of international piano competitions such the Aarhus International Piano Competition and the Kissinger KlavierOlymp. In Denmark, Piekut has received several awards, including the Artist Prize of the Danish Music Critics’ Association, the Danish Radio P2 Talent Prize, the Wilhelm Hansen Foundation Honorary Stipend, the Carl Nielsen and Anne Marie Carl-Nielsen Talent Prize, the Léonie Sonning Talent Prize and the Gladsaxe Music Award. He is an alumnus of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation. Gustav Piekut is generously supported by the Augustinus Foundation.
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Other recordings featuring Gustav Piekut
‘Piekut’s relaxed and focused pianism redeems the ecstatic, celestial, religious and boundary-pushing of two important composers of the early 20th century on this album. Amidst all the existential violence and religious tumult, he manages to maintain a core of inner calm. It is very successfully done.’ – Politiken
‘[Piekut] plays very slowly, and then suddenly drives the music forward with powerful gestures. It is these abrupt changes of mood, this eruption in the midst of thoughtfulness, that make this interpretation so special… Piekut achieves this with dynamic and colourful means, and in doing so, he manages to control his playing so that harshness never arises.’ – Pizzicato
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