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 -pianokilpailu – a finalist prize

  Mikkelin XI pianokatselmus – a recognition prize

2024

  Kuopion X pianokilpailu – 1. prize

2023

  XXIV International Academic Music Competition Jūrmala 2023 for Piano – 2. prize

2022

  XII Leevi Madetoja -pianokilpailu – a recognition prize and a special award of The Society of Finnish Composers

  Mikkelin X pianokatselmus – a recognition prize

  Suomen Kulttuurirahasto – scholarship

2021

  Kuopion IX pianokilpailu – 3. prize and a special prize for the best Bach interpretation in the series

2018

  Mikkelin IX pianokatselmus – a recognition prize