
Gabriel Landstedt, United States

Hailed as an accomplished and versatile pianist, Gabriel Landstedt has received international acclaim as a prizewinner in numerous competitions, including the National Federation of Music Clubs Young Artist Competition, Architecture of Music, Ocean Music, Royal Sound, WPTA Finland, and the UBC Concerto Competition. He has appeared at festivals such as Klavierfestival Lindlar, Chautauqua Piano Program, Art of the Piano, Eastern Music Festival, Salzburg International Summer Academy, and the New Mexico Chamber Music Festival.
Landstedt has performed solo and collaborative recitals across North America and Europe. Highlights of the 2024/2025 season include appearances at Carnegie Hall, Fazioli Concert Hall, and Palau de la Música Catalana. He made his concerto debut at age 16 with the New Mexico Philharmonic after winning the Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition, and recorded Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in 2016 with the Duke Symphonette. He made his New York recital debut the following year. An avid chamber musician, he co-founded the Keyprano Duo with his wife, soprano Allison Landstedt, in 2021.
Landstedt graduated summa cum laude from the University of New Mexico, earning a Bachelor of Music degree and a second major in German, studying with Falko Steinbach. He pursued further studies at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg with Silke-Thora Matthies and Markus Bellheim, and at Manhattan School of Music under Arkady Aronov. He earned his Master of Music at the University of British Columbia, where he is currently completing his DMA with Mark Anderson as a recipient of UBC’s Four Year Doctoral Fellowship. In 2025, he will begin a Graduate Professional Diploma at Boston Conservatory under Jonathan Bass.
Outside of music, Landstedt enjoys skiing, hiking, running, and spending time with his daughter, Kate.
First Round
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109
- Vivace ma non troppo—Adagio espressivo
- Prestissimo
- Gesangvoll—mit innigster Empfindung—Andante molto cantabile ed espressivo
- Johann Sebastian Bach: Prelude and Fugue in A Major, No. 19, from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 864
- Sergei Rachmaninoff: Prelude in B-flat Major, Op. 23, No. 2
- Alexander Scriabin: Étude in b-flat minor, Op. 65, No. 3
- György Ligeti: Étude No. 6, “Autumn in Warsaw”
Quarterfinal Round
- Enrique Granados: “Coloquio en la reja” (from Goyescas, Op. 11)
- Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6 in A Major, Op. 82
- Allegro moderato
- Allegretto
- Tempo di valzer lentissimo
- Vivace
- Olga Kern: Status Animae (State of Soul)—Two Pieces for Solo Piano
- Meditation
- Rhythm Obsession
- George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue (solo piano version)
Semifinal Round—Chamber Music
- Johannes Brahms: Piano Quintet in f minor, Op. 34
- Allegro non troppo
- Andante, un poco adagio
- Scherzo: Allegro
- Finale: Poco sostenuto—Allegro non troppo—Presto, non troppo
Final Round
- Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
- Allegro moderato
- Andante con moto
- Rondo: Vivace
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