On Thursday, November 16, Gustav Piekut will perform Chopin’s beautiful 2nd Piano Concerto at Musikhuset Aarhus with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the young rising star, Maestro Paweł Kapuła.
On July 14, as part of his tour with the young talented German string quartet, Goldmund Quartet, Gustav Piekut performed a concert at the Kolding i Toner festival. The concert was broadcast on Denmark’s Radio P2. In addition to Dvořák’s wonderful piano quintet, you can listen to solo works by Debussy and Rachmaninov via the following link:
The independent online magazine POV International has published a portrait of Gustav Piekut, where he shares insights into music and life as a pianist through short video vignettes. The portrait was produced by Ole Blegvad.
Gustav Piekut performed Prokofiev’s demanding 3rd Piano Concerto with the Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra Kosice under the direction of Christian Øland. After the concert, the cultural media Moja Kultura wrote:
“He played with remarkable nuances of sound—so controlled that one experienced the proverbial silence in the hall during the pianissimo passages. It was a truly brilliant performance, played at tempos that took your breath away. (…) Prokofiev, played by the two Danish artists, became a primal force, then a pleasant rhapsody, then humorous, brilliantly virtuosic, and sensitively lyrical—beautifully executed by the soloist.”
Piekut’s album Towards the Flame, released on Naxos Records in 2021, has been nominated in the solo category of the International Classical Music Awards.
Gustav Piekut performed Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto with Copenhagen Phil and conductor Christoph Gedschold to great critical acclaim.
Review (in Danish): POLITIKEN.DK