Gabriel Landstedt has appeared in festivals including Klavierfestival Lindlar, Salzburg International Summer Academy, Chautauqua Piano Program, Art of the Piano, Eastern Music Festival, and New Mexico Chamber Music Festival. He was the Grand Prize winner in the 2022 Royal Sound Music Competition, runner-up in the 2020 UBC Concerto Competition, and First Prize in the 2012 Jackie McGehee Young Artists’ Competition, after which he made his orchestra debut with the New Mexico Philharmonic. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Landstedt’s appearances included online performances at the Art of Piano, a series of live-streamed concerts on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube. In 2016, Landstedt recorded Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Albuquerque-based Duke Symphonette. Landstedt graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Music degree and Second Major in German from the University of New Mexico, where he studied under Falko Steinbach and was pianist for the UNM Wind Symphony and UNM Symphony Orchestra. He has made additional studies at the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg and the Manhattan School of Music. He earned his Master of Music degree at the University of British Columbia, and he is now pursuing his DMA degree there as a recipient of UBC’s premier Four Year Doctoral Fellowship, studying under Mark Anderson.
Gabriel is the recipient of The Luella Morris Forney Memorial Scholarship, The Chautauqua Piano Scholarship, and the Eleanor B. Daugherty Scholarship Fund.