Pianist
Atte Kohtala (born 2007) is a pianist from Savonlinna. He has been involved in a variety of music studies at the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute since he was a baby. He specialized in piano since 2016 as a student of Anja Forsberg. He was accepted to the Youth Piano Academy Finland in the summer of 2021 and from the autumn of the same year his teachers are Niklas Pokki and Kalla Luhtasela at the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute.
Atte has participated in Paavali Jumppanen's masterclasses at the Savonlinna Music Academy for six years, and has also attended his courses at the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute in the spring since 2017. In primary school, Atte was in a music-oriented class, and studies nowadays in a music upper secondary school.
Awards and recognitions
2025
- Piano Competition Città di San Donà di Piave – 1. prize
- Nordic Junior Piano Competition – a special prize for the best performance of modern repertoire
- XIII Leevi Madetoja Piano Competition – a finalist prize
- Mikkeli XI Piano Review – a recognition prize
2024
- Kuopio X Piano Competition – 1. prize
2023
- XXIV International Academic Music Competition Jūrmala 2023 for Piano – 2. prize
2022
- XII Leevi Madetoja Piano Competition – a recognition prize and a special award of The Society of Finnish
- Mikkeli X Piano Review – a recognition prize
- The Finnish Cultural Foundation – scholarship
2021
- Kuopio IX Piano Competition – 3. prize and a special prize for the best Bach interpretation in the series
2018
- Mikkeli IX Piano Review – a recognition prize
