English — Sophie Clara Holma

Biography

Sophie Holma was born 1999 in Aarau (Switzerland) into a family of musicians. She started playing the piano at the age of five with her pianist parents and later continued having lessons with Oliver Schnyder and Tomas Dratva. From 2018 to 2023 she studied with Prof. Adrian Oetiker at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich. Currently she is completing her master studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Prof. Jan Jiracek von Arnim.

Sophie won numerous prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and plays regularly concerts as a soloist and chamber musician. She’s a scholarship holder of the Yehudi Menuhin Live Music Now Munich foundation and is supported by Lions Club Zurich.

In various masterclasses Sophie has been working with renowned musicians such as Kirill Gerstein, Leif Ove Andsnes, Lilya Zilberstein, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Homero Francesch, Matthias Kirschnereit, Antti Siirala, Anna Malikova, Henri Sigfridsson, Vitaly Pisarenko, Håvard Gimse and Konstantin Lifschitz. At the Menuhin Festival Gstaad 2016 she was one of four selected participants for a masterclass with Lang Lang.

In addition to her solo career she is a dedicated chamber musician and Lied interpreter and has therefore been working with Dirk Mommertz (Fauré Quartet), Raphaël Merlin (Quatuor Ébène), Silke Avenhaus, Wen-Sinn Yang, Tobias Truniger, Christian Gerhaher and Ian Bostridge.