Carl Petersson – Born in 1981 in Lund, Sweden, Carl Petersson graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen with degrees in piano and pedagogy under José Ribera. He studied with renowned pianists Pnina Salzman and Nikolai Petrov at the Tel-Hai International Piano Master Classes. In 2013 he earned his PhD from the Music Academy in Kraków, Poland.

Petersson has performed in Canada, the United States, China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Sweden, Denmark, Poland, France, the Czech Republic, Germany and Israel. He has collaborated with conductors including JoAnn Falletta, Kerry Stratton and Peter Gülke, and has appeared with orchestras such as the Buffalo Philharmonic, the National Czech Radio Orchestra, the Kraków Philharmonic and the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra. He has been a frequent guest at festivals including Music and Beyond in Canada, the Chopin Festival in Antonin, Poland, and the Helsingborg Piano Festival in Sweden, where he has appeared regularly. He inaugurated the Beethoven Festival in Teplice with a gala concert featuring the Teplice Philharmonic and the Czech Philharmonic Chorus and will return to the festival in 2026 with a recital devoted to Beethoven.

His discography includes piano concertos by Friedrich von Flotow with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra and Leopold Godowsky’s Java Suite on the Sterling label. His recording of Percy Grainger’s edition of Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, coupled with Helge Evju’s Piano Concerto based on sketches by Grieg, received critical acclaim. Further recordings include world premieres by Danish composers, an album of Burgmüller’s Études on Grand Piano and two recordings devoted to Beethoven on Naxos.

As a lecturer and pedagogue, he has been invited to speak at the Royal Swedish Academy of Music, the University of Toronto, the New England Conservatory and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. His students have been prize winners in numerous national and international competitions.

Since 2026, Carl Petersson has been a Steinway Artist.