Piano Recital - Susanna Braun - Topsham Music Festival

About

The emerging Swiss pianist Susanna Braun made her debut at the Tonhalle Zrich in 2024, performing Mozarts Piano Concerto KV 466 and earned praise for her sensitive touch, high virtuosity, and expressiveness (Schaffhauser Nachrichten). In June 2025, she appeared with the BBC Philharmonic, performing Bacewiczs Piano Concerto, which was also recorded for a live BBC Radio 3 broadcast. The Arts Desk described her interpretation as gentle, bittersweet and evocative. Her collaborations also include the Manchester Camerata, the Youth Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine, the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen, the Jena Philharmonie, and the Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, among others.

She regularly performs at renowned venues across Europe, including including TivoliVredenburg Utrecht, Tonhalle Zrich (Great and Small Hall), BBC Philharmonic Studio, RNCM (Royal Northern College of Music) Concert Hall, St Marys Perivale, St Jamess Church Piccadilly, Londons Steinway Hall, Manchesters Bridgewater and Stoller Hall, Birmingham Town Hall, Weimarhalle, Bechstein Centrum Hamburg, Spiegelzaal of the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, and Ehrbar Hall in Vienna.

She has already earned significant international recognition. In 2025, she reached the semifinals of the International Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Utrecht; in 2024 she was a top ten candidate at the Rina Sala Gallo International Piano Competition in Monza and one of only 36 participants selected for the Concours Gza Anda. For her artistic achievements she has received numerous awards among them the Brigitte Engerer Prize Jeune espoir at the 2023 Piano Campus in Paris.

Her early achievements include first prizes at the 2018 International Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede, the Ferrara International Piano Festival, and the Swiss Youth Music Competition, as well as the Encouragement Prize awarded by the Neues Orchester Basel and the RNCM Chopin Prize.

A passionate chamber musician, she is the founder and artistic director of BlenioMusica, the annual chamber music festival held in Valle di Blenio (Switzerland), now in its fifth year (2025) and recognized for its innovative programming featuring young artists from around the world.