Aaron Pilsan is just a few weeks short of his 20th birthday but he has already attracted awards and impressive reviews in his native Austria. Pilsan, who currently studies with Lars Vogt, was nominated by Musikverein Wien and Wiener Konzerthaus as part of the Europe-wide ECHO [European Concert Hall Organisation] Rising Stars scheme for emerging artists. Pilsan’s programme of Beethoven and Schubert, which he is touring, along with Chopin and Szymanowski, is perfectly gauged to show his interpretative mettle, while simultaneously establishing his credentials as a performer in the great central-European tradition of Brendel and Schiff, with whom he has attended masterclasses.