Isa-Sophie Zünd was born in Switzerland and grew up in Liechtenstein. She is currently based in Budapest, where she is pursuing her Master’s Degree at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music with Andras Kemenes. In 2022 she completed her Bachelor’s Degree at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel with Claudio Martinez Mehner and Adrian Oetiker.

At the Swiss Youth Music Competition “Musik der Jugend”, she won first prizes several times at federal level. At the Austrian competition “Prima la Musica” in 2018, she won the Vorarlberg state prize in the solo piano category with the highest score of all soloists and subsequently the title of “Austrian national winner” in solo piano. She is also a prize-winner of the “Soloist Competition 2019” of the Vorarlberg State Conservatory and has been heard live on the radio several times, for example as part of the series “Talente im Funkhaus” (ORF).

The young pianist regularly takes part in master classes in Hungary, Austria, Spain and Switzerland. Isa-Sophie Zünd is a passionate chamber musician. Among her chamber music teachers are Márta Gulyás, Gábor Csalog, Anton Kernjak and Anna Gebert. She plays in different chamber music formations and performs as a soloist with various orchestras, e.g. the Symphony orchestra Liechtenstein or the Boho Strings. Her concert activities have taken her to Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Hungary.

Isa-Sophie Zünd is being supported by the Liechtenstein Cultural Foundation, the Stadler-Trier Music Foundation and the Zaczkowski Foundation, among others. She is also a scholarship holder of the Rahn Kulturfonds and the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein.

Since 2021, she has been involved in the activities of the Hamburg cultural and educational project ” TONALi” and is working on several projects to make classical music accessible to a wider audience.

Photo: Andrej Grilc