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Sophie Pacini was born on December 12, 1991, in Munich to a German mother and Italian father. A child prodigy who debuted at age 8, she trained from age 10 at the Mozarteum University Salzburg’s Institute for Highly Gifted (Leopold Mozart Institute) under Karl-Heinz Kämmerling and Pavel Gililov, and took master classes with Dmitri Bashkirov and Fou Ts’ong, passing her concert exam with honors at 19.
Pacini has performed as soloist with orchestras including the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Tokyo Philharmonic, and appeared in halls such as the Berlin Philharmonie, Vienna Konzerthaus, Wigmore Hall, and Suntory Hall. She won the ECHO Klassik “Newcomer of the Year” award in 2015 and the International Classical Music Award “Young Artist of the Year” in 2017, has recorded for Warner Classics, Avi Music, and Deutsche Grammophon, and became a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2023.
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