After winning three prizes at the Horowitz International Competition at the age of 11, Swiss pianist Simon Bürki went on to win the Kiev International Piano Competition for Young Pianists, sponsored by Denis Matsuev, in 2013. This success launched the career of this astonishingly precocious musician, who was only 13 at the time.
Simon Bürki was born in St. Gallen in 2000. His grandmother introduced him to music and he began playing the piano at the age of five in Kiev while attending school in Switzerland. He continued his musical training at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow and is currently studying at the Julliard School in New York in Sergei Babayan’s class.
Simon has won numerous international music competitions. Among other awards, he has won two first prizes in competitions for young pianists: the Franz Liszt International Competition in Weimar and the A Step to Mastery International Competition in St. Petersburg. In the past, Simon has been invited to play at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris as well as in renowned concert halls in Switzerland and abroad.
In 2023, Simon released his first album, “Reminiscence,” dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Sergei Rachmaninoff, which contains 16 miniatures by Schumann, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, and Rachmaninoff.
