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Peter Bence



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Peter Bence is a worldwide piano sensation, composer, and music produc-er who holds a Guinness World Record for being the “Fastest Piano Play-er”. He has taken the Internet by storm with his piano arrangements, col-lecting over 1.2 Billion video hits and ahuge following on YouTube and Facebook over the past 5 years.He has been often referred to as a musi-cian who not only revolutionizes the way piano is played, but influences new generations of pianist and musicians to come.Bence has achieved sensational success with his edgy, percussive and expres-sive playing style that has broken down boundaries between classical and popu-lar music. He takes the piano to a whole new level, turning the instrument into a full orchestra, which inspires both younger and older generations of musicians and music lovers from everywhere around the world.After his training in classical piano and composition, he continued his studies as a scholar at Berklee College of Music inBoston, Massachusetts as a film scor-ing and piano major, where he would absorb a wide spectrum of musical gen-res,many of whichcontributing to his style today. In January 2012 he attained the Guinness World Record for the “most piano key hits in one minute” with 765 key hits.Peter began uploading videos to YouTube while at Berklee and in 2015 with his arrangement of Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ he quickly rose to fame, collecting a whopping 10 million hits over just a few days, becoming a massive viral sensa-tion. Now he has over 950+ million accumulative video views on YouTube and Facebook combined. In thepast four years he has performed sold out shows in over 40 countries, including the Sydney Opera House, Lotte Concert Hall in Seoul, Stadthalle in Vienna or Victoria Hall in Geneva. He opened BBC’s Proms In The Park 2017, in Hyde Park, London for 50,000 people.In 2020 his album “The Awesome Piano” - debuted on the Steinway & Sons label - immediately charted #1 on iTunes in multiple countries and #11 on Billboard (worldwide).