Peter Gjelsten

Peter is currently studying at the Australian National Academy of Music. Prior to this, he was in the Classical Performance programme at Victoria University, studying violin with Monique Lapins, and second instrument piano with Jian Liu and Emma Sayers. His journey started in the Suzuki program with Lynley Culliford and doing chamber music weekly in the YMP programme. He has twice won the won the NZCT Chamber Music Contest, on viola in 2019 and on violin in 2020. In 2021, he was invited on a Chamber Music NZ tour with members of his 2020 winning string quartet and musicians from NZSO.