YONA
SOPHIA
JUTZI

COLLABORATIVE
PIANIST

VITA

Yona Sophia Jutzi received her first piano lessons at the age of six and was taught at the Peter-Cornelius Conservatory in Mainz as well as at the Moores School of Music (Houston, Texas). She studied Bachelor and Master Piano as well as Master Piano Chamber Music with Prof. Thomas Hell, Prof. Sae-Nal Lea Kim and Prof. Boris Kusnezow. She is currently completing her studies in the Meisterklasse with Prof. Boris Kusnezow at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig and with Prof. Thomas Hoppe at the Folkwang University of the Arts Essen. She received further musical impulses from Elisabeth Leonskaja, Alfred Brendel, Günter Pichler (Alban Berg Quartet) and Eberhard Feltz, among others.

She is a prize winner of various competitions and is supported by the Deutschlandstipendium, by the Walter Kaminsky Foundation and by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. Both as a soloist and, above all, as a chamber musician, she has given concerts throughout Germany and abroad, for example in France, Italy, Finland and Switzerland.

In 2021, she founded the Davidoff Piano Trio, with which she won the prestigious Parkhouse Award in London in April 2025. The trio has also won prizes and awards at competitions such as the International Joseph Joachim Chamber Music Competition Weimar 2025, the Folkwang Prize 2025, the International Gianni Bergamo Classic Music Award 2024 and the Orpheus Swiss Chamber Music Competition 2021. Concert recordings have already been broadcast internationally on the radio several times, most recently on SRF-Kultur.The ensemble regularly accepts invitations to perform in Germany, Italy and Switzerland, and has performed at the Brixen Classics Festival, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the Musikdorf Ernen Festival and the Swiss Chamber Music Festival, as well as numerous concert series. For the season 2025-2027, the Davidoff Trio was selected as Ensemble in Residence at ProQuartet - Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre.

Yona Sophia Jutzi is co-founder and artistic director of the innovative concert series “Konzerte im Nirgendwo”, supported by the #MusikerZukunft scholarship from the Deutsche Orchesterstiftung, among others. In addition to her versatile activities as a pianist, she is also active as a music educator for the Schaumburger Schlosskonzerte and working as manager of the International Music Academy for Soloists (IMAS).

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Concert review from 07.08.2023, Brühler Schlosskonzerte

„An outstandingly good pianist with a great interactive style of playing.“

Frutigländer Anzeiger from 20.09.2022

„Sparkling piano runs alternated with light-footed violin playing and a powerful cello sound.
The Davidoff Trio played with great clarity and transparency. It offered a concert experience at the highest instrumental level.“

Gießener Anzeiger fRom 26.01.2022

„Already in Brahms' Piano Piece op. 118.2, the multiple prizewinner of various competitions impressed with great precision
with which she unfolded the great beauty of the music.”

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