Sophie Pacini
Sophie Pacini (born December 12, 1991 in Munich ) is a German - Italian pianist .
Life and musical career
Sophie Pacini began playing the piano at the age of six. She made her concert debut at the age of nine. A year later, the piano teacher Karl-Heinz Kämmerling took over her training at the Salzburg Mozarteum , after which she was accepted into the newly founded institute for gifted students. From 2007 Sophie Pacini continued her studies in the master class of Pavel Gililov and graduated with honors in 2011. Master classes and a. with Dmitri Bashkirov and Fou Ts'ong completed their training.
Sophie Pacini appears in concert halls around the world such as u. a. Suntory Hall Tokyo and Orchard Hall Tokyo, Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Beethovenhalle Bonn, Tonhalle Zürich , Konzerthaus Berlin , Philharmonie Berlin , Philharmonie am Gasteig Munich Konzerthaus Dortmund , Gewandhaus Leipzig , Konzerthaus Vienna , Wigmore Hall London, Opéra de Dijon, Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) Brussels, Philharmonic Haarlem.
She performed at international festivals such as u. a. the Lucern Piano Festival , the Ruhr Piano Festival , the Rheingau Music Festival , the MDR Music Summer and the Salzburg Festival .
As a soloist, Sophie Pacini has performed with orchestras such as the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra , the Dresden Philharmonic , the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra , the Vienna Chamber Orchestra , the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra , the Brandenburg Symphony Orchestra , the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra .
Sophie Pacini has received prizes such as the ECHO Klassik in the “Young Artist of the Year 2015” category, the Prix Edmond de Rothschild Group 2011, the Deutschlandfunk sponsorship award at Musikfest Bremen 2011 and the International Classical Music Award (ICMA) as “Young Artist of the Year - instrumental “2017. Since 2013 she has been a scholarship holder of the Mozart Society Dortmund.
Discography
- 2012 Schumann's Piano Concerto and Mozart's Piano Concerto in E flat major with the Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz under Radoslaw Szulc (Onyx)
- 2012 Schumann - Liszt (CAvi Music)
- 2014 Chopin (CAvi Music)
- 2016 Beethoven - Liszt (Warner Classics)
- 2018 "In Between" - Robert Schumann and Clara Schumann - Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel (Warner Classics)
repertoire
Her repertoire mainly includes the Viennese classical period as well as the music of the romantic and impressionist periods .
Prizes and awards
- 2011 Prix Groupe Edmond de Rothschild of the Sommets Musicaux de Gstaad
- 2011 Bremen Music Festival Prize and Deutschlandfunk Prize
- 2013 grant from the Mozart Society Dortmund
- 2015 ECHO Klassik as "Young Artist of the Year - Piano"
- 2017 International Classical Music Award (ICMA) as Young Artist of the Year
Web links
- Sophie Pacini - official website
- Portrait on the pages of warnerclassics.de
- Sophie Pacini - Chopin Trailer, CAvi Music 2014
- One-hour interview on June 28, 2018 in "One to One. The Talk", Radio Bayern 2
- Musician with a mission: the pianist Sophie Pacini
- Sophie Pacini: Records Mendelssohn & Schumann: "In Between"
Individual evidence
- ^ Sophie Pacini. sommetsmusicaux.ch, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ^ Förderpreis Deutschlandfunk 2011. deutschlandradio.de, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Scholarship holders from 1961 - piano. mozart-gesellschaft-dortmund.de, accessed on February 6, 2019 .
- ↑ Echo Klassik 2015 Prize Winners. echoklassik.de, accessed on February 5, 2019 .
- ↑ ICMA, The winners of the year 2017. icma-info.com, accessed on February 6, 2019 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pacini, Sophie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Italian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1991 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |