Biography
Prize-winner of numerous international competitions, trained at the music academies of Stuttgart, Vienna and Rīga.
Sophia Weidemann began her musical training at the piano at the age of 10. Just five years later she became a junior student at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart in the class of Florian Wiek.
Trained at the State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart, the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music in Riga, she completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees with top marks.
She then qualified for the Konzertexamen, which she passed with distinction with Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Brahms’s Piano Concerto in B-flat major.
She also received important artistic impulses from Alfred Brendel, who taught her at the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival.
She is a prize-winner of international competitions both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. With her chamber ensemble Kyklos Chambers she won first prize at the Virtuoso & Belcanto Festival in Italy in summer 2022. As a soloist she won first prizes at the International Piano Competition “Alexander Scriabin” in Paris (2019) and at the Béla Bartók Piano Competition in Vienna (2015). She is also a scholarship holder of, among others, Live Music Now and Jeunesses Musicales Deutschland.
Her first album release, with works by Fanny Hensel, received glowing reviews. On this recording she combines music and the spoken word – a combination that also distinguishes her concerts. The Augsburger Allgemeine writes that the music is “played by Sophia Weidemann so masterfully, as if it flowed directly from the heart into the keys.” She also features in a documentary about Fanny Hensel produced by ARTE.
In 2025 her second album, J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, was released on GENUIN. The CD was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award. In Fono Forum Ingo Harden writes: “Sophia Weidemann surprises. […] In a word: it would be hard to imagine a more perfect, concise, and controlled performance of the Goldberg Variations than hers.”
As a soloist she can be heard in Germany and abroad, among others with Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, Brahms’s B-flat major Piano Concerto and Clara Schumann’s Piano Concerto, which she performed this season with the Jena Philharmonic.