Ben Lepetit

Biography

Ben Lepetit began playing the piano in early childhood and, at the age of eight, was admitted as a junior student to the studio of Professor Grigory Gruzman in Weimar. He has performed at prestigious venues and festivals including the Mozarteum Salzburg, the Gewandhaus Leipzig, and the Dresden Music Festival. As a soloist, he has appeared with orchestras such as the Robert Schumann Philharmonic Orchestra Chemnitz and the Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic under the baton of Kristjan Järvi. Ben has won numerous national and international competitions, including First Prize and nine Special Prizes at the Piano Campus Competition in Cergy-Pontoise, as well as prizes at the International Franz Liszt Competition Weimar and the Vladimir Krainev Competition in Zurich (2024). After a three-year break, he resumed his studies in 2023 with Prof. Michail Lifits at the University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar.