The young Danish pianist Emil Gryesten Jensen is rapidly gaining reputation as one of the most talented and successful classical musicians of the Nordic region. At the age of 15 he won the first prize at the Hamburg Steinway Klavierwettbewerb, and the following year he won the Danish Steinway Competition. In 2006 he won the first prize, a Blüthner grand piano, at the Malmö-Blüthner Piano Competition in Sweden. While a student at the Sibelius Academy he won the first prize at the Finnish National Piano Competition in Jyväskylä in March 2010. Many music critics, classical music professionals, and music lovers consider him the leading Danish pianist of the younger generation. On this highly anticipated new release from Danacord, he performs works by Franz Schubert.
