Biography

Rune Leicht Lund (b. 2003) is a young Danish pianist with an active career as a soloist and chamber musician. He has received numerous awards at national and international piano competitions and is among the finalists in the prestigious Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht 2025/2026.

Rune won his first international competition at the age of 10. In October 2021, he was awarded 3rd prize at the 10th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar/Bayreuth, as well as a special prize for the best interpretation of Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B minor and a special prize for the best interpretation of a classical sonata (Beethoven’s Waldstein Sonata, Op. 53). In August 2023, he won 3rd prize at the 12th International Rosario Marciano Piano Competition in Vienna.

Rune has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at festivals and in concert halls across numerous countries, including Konzerthaus Berlin, Rheingau Musik Festival, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Tivoli Concert Hall, and DR Concert Hall. At age 12, he made his debut as a soloist with Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 - first with Randers Chamber Orchestra, and later with the Aarhus Symphony Orchestraand the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen. Since then, he has performed as a soloist with, among others, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Toruń Symphony Orchestra (Poland), and the Odense Symphony Orchestra.

Rune has received instruction and participated in masterclasses with a wide range of international pianists and educators, including Eugen Indjic, Kevin Kenner, Andrzej Jasiński, Ewa Pobłocka, Tatiana Zelikman, Lilya Zilberstein, and Leslie Howard. In the summer of 2021, he was awarded a full scholarship to the Vienna Summer School organized by the International Lieven Piano Foundation.

After studying at Klaverskolen Gradus with Martin Lysholm Jepsen, Rune moved to Vienna in February 2020, where he completed his bachelor’s degree in February 2025 at the Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MuK) under Professor Jura Margulis. Since then, he has attended courses with Professor Julia Mustonen-Dahlkvist at Ingesund School of Music in Sweden, where he will begin his master’s studies under her guidance in the fall of 2025.

Rune receives support from the Jacob Gade Foundation and the Betty and Valdemar van Hauen Foundation. At the latter foundation’s award ceremony in Tivoli Concert Hall on June 1, 2022, he performed as a soloist in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9, Jeunehomme.

Awards and important concerts:

Laureate of 1st Award at “Stockholm International Music Competition”, (Stockholm, Sweden 2014)

Laureate of 2nd Award at “The 7th Young Pianist of the north”, (Newcastle, England 2014)

Laureate of 1st Award at “VI Tarptautinis Lenku Fortepuonines Muzikos Konkursas, Skirtas Fryderykui Chopinui”, (Vilnius, Lithuania 2014)

Special prize for the best F. Chopin piece performance at “VI Tarptautinis Lenku Fortepuonines Muzikos Konkursas, Skirtas Fryderykui Chopinui”, (Vilnius, Lithuania 2014)

Grand Prix at “XV International competition, Music Without Limits”, (Druskininkai, Lithuani 2015)

Laureate of 1st Award at “3. International Piano Competition Euregio Piano Award“, (Geilenkirchen, Germany 2015)

Laureate of 1st Award at “Wonder kids”, a series of 5 live programs on Danish Broadcasting Corporation (Danish National Television, Copenhagen, 2015)

January 2016: Soloist with “The Danish Sinfonietta", Randers in the 2nd piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven

Grand Prix at “Bieszczady Bez Granic, Mlody Wirtuoz”, (Sanok, Poland 2016)

March 2016: Solo recital at Holmboe music festival in Horsens, Denmark

Laureate of 1st Award at “Steinway Piano Festival”, (Aarhus, Denmark 2016)

Special prize as the Danish National Winner to represent Denmark at “17th International Steinway Festival”, (Laeiszhalle- Hamburg, Germany 2016)

June 2016: Soloist with The Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Copenhagen in the 2nd piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven.

June 2016: Soloist with Aarhus Symphony Orchestra, Aarhus in the 2nd piano concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Laureate of 3rd Award at “VII International Chopin Piano Competition”, (Gödöllö, Hungary, 2016)

Diploma at “Aarhus International Piano Competition”, (Aarhus, Denmark, 2017)

Laureate of 2nd Award at “XVII International Competition, Music Without Limits”, (Druskininkai, Lithuania,2017)

Laureate of two concerts in Poland - as a soloist with Torun Symphony Orchestra, (Torun, Poland), and a solo recital, (Stalowa Wola, Poland) - at ”Bieszczady Bez Granic” (Sanok, Poland, 2018)

Laureate of 1 st award at “Steinway Piano Festival”, Humlebæk, Denmark 2018

Special prize as the Danish National Winner to represent Denmark at “18th International Steinway Festival”, (Laeiszhalle- Hamburg, Germany 2018

Laureate of Gold medal and winner of the talent price at “Berlingske music competition” Copenhagen, Denmark, 2018

Distinction prize at the 26th International Fryderyk Chopin piano competition for children and youth, Szafarnia 2018

Finalist at “International Piano competition, October 2018, Enschede, Netherlands

Finalist at Aarhus International Piano Competition”, Aarhus, Denmark, March, 2019

Soloist with Torunska Orikiestra Symfoniczna (Torun Symphony Orchestra, Torun, Poland) piano concerto no. 1 by Franz Liszt, august 2019

Solo recital, Ostsee-Klassik, Boltenhagener Musikfestspiele in Germany. Beethoven, Chopin and Debussy, August 2019

Solo recital at Kammermusikforeningen Brage in Randers - Denmark. Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin,

Rachmaninov and Debussy. October 2019

February 2020: Piano student at MuK, Musik und kunst, Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien with professor Jura Margulis

August 2020: Solo recital at Skive church in Skive - Denmark. Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin

August 2020: Solo recital at Dronningborg church in Randers - Denmark. Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin

September 2020: Solo recital at The Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus-Denmark. Beethoven, Liszt and Chopin

July-August 2021: Full scholarship at the summer school of the International Lieven piano foundation, Vienna

October/November 2021: Laureate of 3rd award at the ”10th international Franz Liszt piano competition Weimar/Bayreuth”

Laureate of special award for the best interpretation of the sonata in B minor by Franz Liszt at ”10th international Franz Liszt piano competition Weimar/Bayreuth”

Laureate of special award for the best interpretation of a classical sonata (Beethoven no. 21 op. 53 Waldstein) at ”10th international Franz Liszt piano competition Weimar/Bayreuth”

Rune is the recipient of the Betty and Valdemar Van Hauens grant and he played the Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271, Jeunehomme (1777) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791), with Arco Chamber Orchestra at the prize ceremony in Tivoli’s concert hall, Copenhagen the 1st of June 2022

Liszt-Festival auf Schloss Schillingsfürst. Masterclasses with Leslie Howard and concerts at "Schloss Schillingsfürst", Schillingsfürst, Germany, arranged for prizewinners at international Liszt competitions, 9.-16. of July 2022

Solo-recital. 20. Bayreuther Klavierfestival at Steingraeber & Söhne, Bayreuth, Germany. "Vorgänger und Nachfolger Franz Liszts", 4th of August 2022

J.S. Bach Präludium und Fuge XXII b-Moll das Wohltemperierte Klavier 1

L.v Beethoven Sonata in A-Major Opus 101

A. Scriabin Sonata No. 5 Opus 53

Pause

F. Chopin Scherzo No. 4 Opus 54

C. Nielsen Chaconne Opus 32

F. Liszt Sonata in B-Minor

Encores:

Nikolai Kapustin "eight concert etudes" Opus 40 No 1, prelude

F. Chopin etude Opus 10 No. 2

August 2023: Laureate of 3rd award at ”12th international Rosario Marciano piano competition”, Vienna.