Curriculum Vitae
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I was born and raised in Switzerland, near Basel by a Chilean mother and a Swiss father.
Since I graduated from Music University in Basel 2021 I dedicate my time to my two passions: Playing concerts and motivating my young piano students as a teacher in the Musikakademie der Stadt Basel.
Awards and Recognitions
2025 — Semifinals (Top 8 of 66) Liedduo Competition Schubert und die Musik
der Moderne in Graz
2024 — Scholarship for a two-week study stay and masterclass at the Arnold Schönberg
Center in Vienna
2020 — award and scholarship of FHNW for the Video
«Dis und Des #Musicalthoughts4u»
2017 — Scholarship oft he Friedl Wald Foundation
2013 — 1st Prize Swiss Youth Music Competition, prizewinners concert
in Kulturcasino Bern
2012 — 1st Prize Swiss Youth Music Competition
2011 — 3rd Prize European Music Competition Città di Moncalieri
2011 — 4th Prize Youth Music Competition Laupersdorf
2011 — 2nd Prize Swiss Youth Music Competition
2010 — 1st Prize Youth Music Competition Laupersdorf
2008 — 2nd Prize Youth Music Competition Laupersdorf
Solo Performances With Orchestras
2025 — with the orchestra of Dornach, Saint-Saëns piano concerto
no 2 conducted by von Konradin Herzog
2019 — with the festival orchestra of Ettal conducted by Federico Bosco
2018 — with the orchester of Reinach conducted by Giorgio Paronuzzi
2016 — with the orchestra of Dornach conducted by Jonathan Brett Harrison
2009, 2010 — with the youth orchestra Birseck conducted by Lukas Greiner,
tours through Germany, Italy, Croatia, Albany, Kosovo and Switzerland
Musical training
2022-2023 — post degree studies with Prof.Claudio Martínez Mehner
and Prof. Anton Kernjak HSM Basel
2021-2022 — post degree studies Klassen Prof. Anton Kernjak and Prof. Zoltán Feiérvári HSM Basel
2019-2021 — Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy, Prof. Adrian Oetiker
HSM Basel
2017-2019 — Master of Arts in Performance, Klasse Prof.
Ronald Brautigam HSM Basel
2017-2018 — courses in Jazz piano, rhythm and theory,
HSM Basel department of Jazz
2014-2017 — Bachelor of Arts bei Prof. Ronald Brautigam HSM Basel
2012-2014 — PreCollege HSM Basel
2010-2012 — Talent development, Musikakademie Basel
2009-2014 — Piano classes with Alicja Masan, Musikakademie Basel
2007-2009 — Piano classes with Christina Koch
2003-2007 — Piano classes with Johannes Greiner, Jugendmusikschule Dornach
2001-2003 — Violin classes with Claudia Kruck Huber
1999-2001 — Piano and lyre harp with Liselotte Greiner
Pedagogical experience
Currently — piano class music academy of Basel
2022-2025 — piano class in the conservatory of Bern
2021-2022 — piano class in the music school of Mutschellen