Pianist
Atte Kohtala (born 2007) is a pianist from Savonlinna, Finland. He has been involved in a variety of music studies at the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute since early childhood, specializing in piano under Anja Forsberg from 2016 onward. In the summer of 2021, he was accepted into the Youth Piano Academy Finland, and from the fall of that year, his teachers were Niklas Pokki and Kalla Luhtasela from the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute. Currently, Kohtala studies at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki under Niklas Pokki.
Kohtala has participated in Paavali Jumppanen's masterclasses at the Savonlinna Music Academy for seven years and has attended Jumppanen's spring courses at the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute regularly since 2017. During comprehensive school, he was part of a music-focused class and later attended a music-oriented high school. He has performed at the Mänttä Music Festival, Mikkeli Music Festival, as a soloist with the Savonlinna Orchestra in the Young Soloists' Concert of the Savonlinna Music and Dance Institute, as well as with the Savonlinna Quartet.
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 Composers
- 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
