Julian Gast is among the most successful young German pianists of his generation.

Most recently, he was awarded Fourth Prize at the Sendai International Music Competition in 2025, one of the most important music competitions in Asia. In 2024, he received Third Prize as well as the Audience Prize at the International ZF Music Award. He had already gained major recognition in 2019 when he won Second Prize at the TONALi Competition in Hamburg, together with the Christoph Eschenbach Special Prize, which was personally presented to him by Christoph Eschenbach.

He has performed with renowned orchestras such as the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim, the Norddeutsche Philharmonie, the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie, and the Sendai Philharmonic Orchestra. As a chamber musician, he has appeared alongside distinguished soloists and ensembles including Nils Mönkemeyer, Priya Mitchell, and the Szymanowski Quartet.

Festival invitations have taken him to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, the Bachtage Rostock, the Gezeiten Festival, Festival Vielsaitig, the Lüneburg Bach Week, and the Hitzacker Music Festival. For many years, he has also performed successfully as a duo with his twin brother, the clarinetist Nikolai Gast.

His musical education began at the Lübeck Academy of Music and later continued at the Young Academy Rostock under the guidance of Professor Matthias Kirschnereit. At the age of seventeen, he began his bachelor's studies with him at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre, graduating with distinction in 2022. Since 2022, he has been pursuing a master's degree with Professor Jacques Rouvier at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Further artistic inspiration has come from musicians and teachers such as Arie Vardi, Bernd Goetzke, Janina Fialkowska, Lise de la Salle, and Douglas Humpherys.

Julian Gast is a scholarship holder of the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben, the Hans and Eugenia Jütting Foundation, the Marie Luise Imbusch Foundation, the Foundation of Lower Saxony, and the German Academic Scholarship Foundation.