GUGG Piano Duo

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The Gugg Piano Duo is the winner of the International Competition Franz Schubert and Modern Music (FSMM) 2025 and regularly performs in important concert halls – most recently in the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Brahms Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the Stefaniensaal of the Musikverein Graz and the Athenaeum in Bucharest, where they stood in for a duo evening with Martha Argerich and Cristina Marton-Argerich. The Gugg Piano Duo has been awarded first prize numerous times. In addition to the FSMM Competition, the duo has won first prize at the Suzana Szörenyi Duo Competition in Bucharest (including the audience prize), the ArtePiano Competition in Castelnuovo di Farfa, the Franz Schubert Competition in Jeseník, the Music and Earth Competition in Sofia, the Vlastimil Lejsek Piano Duo Competition in Brno and the Austrian Music Competition Prima la musica. Their other awards include 2nd prizes at the piano competition in Rome and the Duettissimo competition in Krakow, where they were also awarded the Mozart Prize, as well as a special prize at the ARD Competition in Munich. They have performed with orchestras such as the Krakow Philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Conservatory in Brno, the Webern Chamber Philharmonic and the Munich Chamber Orchestra.

Their performance of Carl Czerny´s piano concerto for four hands with the Webern Chamber Philharmonic was broadcast on ORF as part of a charity concert for Licht ins Dunkel. The duo has also appeared on television and radio programs in Austria (Ö1), Germany (ARD), Poland (Radio Krakow), the Czech Republic (Radio Vltava) and the Netherlands (NPO). Concert invitations have taken the duo to Germany, the Czech Republic, Poland, Estonia, Romania, Austria, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, the Netherlands and Brazil. In the coming season, they will also be performing in France, England and the USA for the first time, as well as at the Musikverein Graz, the Styriarte and the Ljubljana Festival.

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