Biography

The emerging Swiss pianist Susanna Braun made her debut at the Tonhalle Zürich in 2024, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto KV 466. She has captivated audiences and critics with her delicate and sublime touch, high virtuosity, and profound musical sensitivity. Susanna impressed the audience with her mature and nuanced interpretation of Mozart’s piano concerto “Where one often has to endure perhaps routine but uninteresting, because clichéd, performances of Mozart’s works, Susanna has set a refreshing and confident counterpoint, making it a true joy to listen!” Highlights in 2025 will include a performance with the BBC Philharmonic and the Manchester Camerata.

Susanna is pursuing the prestigious postgraduate program “International Artist Diploma” at the Royal Northern College of Music in England on a full scholarship. Additionally, enrolled at the Imola International Academy “Incontri con il Maestro”, she is under the guidance of Boris Petrushansky and at the Hochschule für Musik FRANZ LISZT Weimar, she is mentored by Grigory Gruzman. She continues to work with Helen Krizos from the Royal Northern College of Music, with whom she previously studied both at this institution and at Chetham’s School of Music. She owes her successful start in professional piano playing to Danilo Manto from Milan.

Susanna regularly tours throughout Europe. In January 2025 she performed at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht as part of the semifinals of the Liszt Utrecht Piano Competition and in 2024, she participated in the 16th Concours Géza Anda. In autumn 2023 she performed Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 in Munich and 48 hours later Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 2 in Hamburg. Some highlights from her first concert tour in the Netherlands in 2022 included a solo recital in the Spiegelzaal of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, followed by an interview, both recorded live on Radio 4. O.a. she has also performed in venues such as Town Hall in Birmingham, St. James Piccadilly Church and St Mary’s Perivale in London, Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, Teatro Comunale in Ferrara, Lanserhaus in Eppan during the Piano Academy Eppan 2019, Palazzo Arese Borromeo during Piano City Milano, Martinskirche and Elisabethenkirche in Basel, ETH Zurich and Universitaetsspital Zurich (USZ), Palais Ehrbar in Vienna, and Weimarhalle in Weimar.

Still in her early career, Susanna has already received numerous awards. At the 21st International Competition Piano Campus 2023 in Paris, she received the “Brigitte Engerer Prize”, which honours the candidate with the greatest career potential as “Jeune Espoir” as well as the partner “Sogel Pontoise Prize”. In 2018 she won first prizes at the 10th International Piano Competition for Young Musicians in Enschede and the Ferrara International Piano Festival in Italy. The following year she received the encouragement prize from the Neues Orchester Basel, and in 2020 the “RNCM Chopin Prize” and “The Marjorie Clementi Memorial Award” from the RNCM. She celebrated further successes at the 7th Andrea Baldi International Piano Competition, International Anton Rubinstein Competition, 8th International Rosario-Marciano Competition, Mazovia XXII International Chopin Festival, 4th International Piano Competition Piano Talents, Euterpe International Music Competition.

Appearances with orchestra have been made with the Sinfonietta Schaffhausen, Jena Philharmonie, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, the Orchestra d’Archi Ferruccio Bevenuto Busoni and the Orchestra del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, Florence.

Susanna is the founder and artistic director of the annual chamber music festival “BlenioMusica”, which was realized for the first time in July 2021 in Valle di Blenio, Switzerland. Since its first edition, the festival has been very well-received – in 2025 it will take place for the fifth time.

In addition to the piano, Susanna is also an accomplished violinist, and is fluent in English, German, and Italian. She is grateful for the support from the charity organization “Talent Unlimited”.

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Awards

‘Brigitte Engerer Prize’ Piano Campus International Competition (Paris France 2023)
‘Sogel Pontoise Prize’ Piano Campus International Piano Competition (Paris France 2023)
‘The Marjorie Clementi Memorial Award’ RNCM School of Keyboard Studies (winner, Manchester UK 2020)
‘Weidenkam Culture Fonds’ Swiss Association Derecha (winner of full scholarship, Switzerland 2019)
‘NOB-Foerderpreis’ Encouragement prize from ‘Neue Orchester Basel’ (winnter, Basel Switzerland 2019)
‘Swiss Youth Music Competition’ Entrada (1st prize with mention, Switzerland 2019)
‘10th International Piano Competition for Young Musicians’ (Winner, Enschede Holland 2018)
‘Ferrara International Piano Festival’ (Winner, Ferrara Italy 2018)
‘7th Andrea Baldi International Piano Competition’ (1st prize absolute, Bologna Italy 2017)
‘International Anton Rubinstein Competition’ (2nd prize, Düsseldorf Germany 2017)
‘8th International Rosario-Marciano Competition’ (3rd prize, Vienna Austria 2016)
‘RNCM Chopin Prize’ (Winner, Manchester UK 2015)
‘Mazovia XXII International Chopin Festival’ (Winner, Warsaw Poland 2014)
‘4th International Piano Competition Piano Talents’ (Winner of ‘Bach prize’ and 1st prize, Milan Italy 2014)
‘Euterpe International Music Competition’ (1st prize absolute, Corato Italy 2014)
‘International Cesar Franck Piano Competition’ (2nd prize, Belgium 2014)
‘Terzo Musica Valle Bormida’ (2nd prize, Italy 2011)