Sonya Pigot

In January 2025, Sonya Pigot was a semi-finalist in the Liszt Utrecht International Piano Competition at the TivoliVredenburg, Netherlands.   Her performing career has taken to prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, Steinway Hall, the Royal Albert Hall and concert halls throughout Asia, Australia and Europe. While studying at the Royal College of Music she worked with renowned professors including Norma Fisher, Sofya Gulyak, Ashley Wass, Dimitri Alexeev and Ian Jones. She is currently on a scholarship studying for a PhD that explores the relationship between personality and the interpretation of music at the RCM.
In addition to performing for members of the British Royal Family, Sonya has won and taken part in many international music competitions across Australia and Europe, most notably the Busoni International Piano Competition, as a semi-finalist in the Liszt Utrecht International Piano Competition, First Prize in the Grand Prize Virtuoso International music competition, Gold Medal in the Berliner International Music Competition, First Prize in the Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award Piano Competition and First Prize in the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Rising Star Competition.
Sonya has had concert engagements with orchestras since she was 15, most notably performing Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Richard Gill AO and the Perugia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marius Stravinsky in Tuscany.
She has taken part in masterclasses with Alfred Brendel, Boris Berman, John Perry, Ewa Pablocka and Pavel Gililov. Alongside her solo career she is looking forward to performing with the violinist David Nebel, Concertmaster of the Berlin Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in the 2025/26 season.