Through “mesmerizing” and “commanding” performances (The New York Times), pianist and composer Robert Fleitz curates artistic experiences that surprise as often as dazzle. He made his “auspicious debut” (New York Concert Review) in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in October 2021. Known as an “innovative musical thinker,” recent honors include the First Prize in the 2022 John Cage Award in Halberstadt, 2021 Pro Musicis International Award, the Latvian Music Academy Young Artist of the Year Award, the André Boucourechliev Prize in the 2020 International Piano Competition of Orléans, 3rd Prize in the Concorso Marcello Pontillo (Florence). His most recent album The Silent Voice was released on the Latvian record label SKANI in November 2024, and includes world-premiere recordings of newly commissioned works by notable composers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He is the co-founder of the Swan City Piano Festival in his hometown of Lakeland, Florida. He also works as a content creator for Tonebase Piano’s YouTube page which has over 216,000 subscribers; with his videos having garnered millions of views in total. He is actively involved in multidisciplinary projects and can be found in contexts as varied as classical chamber music to DIY performance art. Robert began piano lessons with his father at age 4, and studied at The Juilliard School (BM, MM) and the Latvian Academy of Music (MM where he studied with Julian Martin, Hung-Kuan Chen, and Juris Žvikovs. He has studied composition with Eric Wubbels, Jānis Petraškevičs, and Simon Frisch. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he is studying the topic of musical hybridity. He speaks English, Latvian, Spanish, Portuguese, and is slowly learning Finnish.
See moreSee lessThrough “mesmerizing” and “commanding” performances (The New York Times), pianist and composer Robert Fleitz curates artistic experiences that surprise as often as dazzle. He made his “auspicious debut” (New York Concert Review) in Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall in October 2021. Known as an “innovative musical thinker,” recent honors include the First Prize in the 2022 John Cage Award in Halberstadt, 2021 Pro Musicis International Award, the Latvian Music Academy Young Artist of the Year Award, the André Boucourechliev Prize in the 2020 International Piano Competition of Orléans, 3rd Prize in the Concorso Marcello Pontillo (Florence). His most recent album The Silent Voice was released on the Latvian record label SKANI in November 2024, and includes world-premiere recordings of newly commissioned works by notable composers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. He is the co-founder of the Swan City Piano Festival in his hometown of Lakeland, Florida. He also works as a content creator for Tonebase Piano’s YouTube page which has over 216,000 subscribers; with his videos having garnered millions of views in total. He is actively involved in multidisciplinary projects and can be found in contexts as varied as classical chamber music to DIY performance art. Robert began piano lessons with his father at age 4, and studied at The Juilliard School (BM, MM) and the Latvian Academy of Music (MM where he studied with Julian Martin, Hung-Kuan Chen, and Juris Žvikovs. He has studied composition with Eric Wubbels, Jānis Petraškevičs, and Simon Frisch. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, where he is studying the topic of musical hybridity. He speaks English, Latvian, Spanish, Portuguese, and is slowly learning Finnish.
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