Pianist Viktor Soos (born 09.06.1996) is considered one of the outstanding musicians of his generation.
He regularly performs at venues such as the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, the Laeiszhalle Hamburg, the Philharmonie Essen, the Beethoven-Haus Bonn, and at festivals including the Kissinger Klaviersommer, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, the Ruhr Piano Festival, and the Trans-Siberian Art Festival.
His concert tours have taken him to Japan, Argentina, the USA, Russia, and Chile.

As a soloist, he has performed with orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra, the Lübeck Philharmonic, and the Staatskapelle Halle.
Viktor Soos regularly gives masterclasses both in Germany and abroad and has performed with renowned artists such as the star violinist Midori and the clarinetist Sabine Meyer.

He frequently records for radio stations such as Deutschlandfunk, NDR, BR, MDR, WDR, and SWR.
Since this year, Viktor Soos has been a lecturer at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover as well as at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Viktor Soos has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions.
He received the 2nd Prize at the prestigious European Piano Competition 2024 in Bremen and is a prizewinner of the International Robert Schumann Competition 2021 in Zwickau. In 2017, he was named a finalist at the German Music Competition by the German Music Council and was included in the “Bundesauswahl Konzerte Junger Künstler” (BAKjK), receiving several special prizes.

In 2017, he won the Yamaha Scholarship Competition of the YMFE in Rostock and the First Prize at the Possehl Competition in Lübeck. He was also a prizewinner at the Kissinger KlavierOlymp.
In 2018, he received the Steinway Classical Promotion Prize. At the TONALi Grand Prix in 2016, he won Second Prize, and in 2015, he achieved First Prize at the International Rotary Piano Competition in Essen.

Viktor Soos is a scholarship holder of the Live Music Now Foundation, the German Music Life Foundation, and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.

He began his musical education at the age of six. In 2014/15, he was a junior student at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main in the piano class of Oliver Kern.
From 2015 to 2021, he studied piano at the Lübeck University of Music with Konrad Elser. Since 2021, he has been studying at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover in the class of Bernd Goetzke.

He has participated in masterclasses with Menahem Pressler, Andrzej Jasinski, Lilya Zilberstein, Jacques Rouvier, Dmitri Alexeev, and Pavel Gililov.