To the Top
Weimar piano student Justus Eichhorn jumps to No. 1 on the classical charts with his debut album
The 16-year-old pianist and Weimar piano student Justus Eichhorn has achieved an unusually early success. He jumped to the top of the German classical charts with his debut album “The Source,” released on the “Deutsche Grammophon” label. According to statistics from “GfK Entertainment,” he is the youngest classical solo artist to reach the top spot on the charts since 1997.
Justus Eichhorn will begin a bachelor’s degree program in Prof. Grigory Gruzman’s piano class in Weimar in the 2026–27 winter semester. More than 800,000 people already follow him on his social media channels.
Justus Eichhorn was born in Weimar in 2009. At the age of seven, he began taking piano lessons from Helene and Sebastian Roth at the music school in Weimar. At the age of nine, he became a young student of Prof. Grigory Gruzman at the FRANZ LISZT University of Music in Weimar. He attended the Music High School Schloss Belvedere in Weimar through 10th grade.
At age ten, he gave his first orchestral concert, performing Haydn’s Piano Concerto in D major. Since then, he has performed internationally both in solo recitals and as a soloist with orchestras, including three performances in South Korea and a tour of China in 2025.
In 2026, he began his collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon. His DG debut album, “The Source,” traces the rich musical history of his hometown, Weimar, through works by J. S. Bach, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Hindemith, Schubert, and Richard Strauss. It also features études by Carl Czerny as well as the first recordings of three of Eichhorn’s own compositions.
In 2026–27, Eichhorn will conclude his cycle of all of Beethoven’s piano concertos with performances of the Piano Concerto No. 4 at various venues in Germany, the Czech Republic, Switzerland, and Turkey. He will also give recitals in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
His numerous awards include First Prize at the 2019 Carl Bechstein Competition in Berlin, the 2021 Elba Festival Prize, and the 2022 Swiss Charity Award. He has participated twice in the Verbier Festival Academy.
⇒ Justus Eichhorn on ARD’s “Morgenmagazin”
[September 25, 2026]