Leo Gevisser

Based in New York City, pianist and composer Leo Gevisser received his Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance from the Juilliard School with academic honors in May 2024—under the mentorship of Jerome Lowenthal. 

In 2024, Leo was awarded the 2nd Prize Caisse de Dépôts in the 16th Concours International de Piano d’Orléans—along with being awarded the Public Prize, Elliott Carter Prize, and the month-long Henri Dutilleux-Geneniève Joy Residency in France.

Leo is the recipient of the First Prize at the Miesczysław Munz Scholarship Competition at The Juilliard School. In New York, he has been invited to perform solo recitals as part of the Sparkill Recital Series in New York for the 2022, 2023, and 2024 seasons. He has also been invited to perform in events and venues such as the Yale School of Music’s New Music New Haven series, as well as Harvard College for a public fundraiser concert organized by the Leon Fleisher Academy. 

Raised in Cape Town, Leo remains deeply connected to South Africa. There, his musical studies progressed under the tutelage of Professors Nina Schumann and Luis Magalhães—in which time he became a first prize winner at several prestigious national music competitions in South Africa, including the SAMRO Hubert van der Spuy and Atterbury national piano competitions. In 2022, he was invited back to South Africa: performing concertos with the Cape Town, Kwa-Zulu Natal, and Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestras— followed by a seven-city solo recital tour across the country. In 2023, he performed with the Cape Town Philharmonic for the final concert of their Summer Season, as well as for the Huberte Rupert Memorial Concert. He performed as a soloist with the Mzanzi Philharmonic Orchestra in a three-city tour in South Africa at the end of 2024. 

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