Katia Braunschweiler As a soloist and chamber musician, Katia has performed in Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Austria and Spain. Katia was born in Geneva in 1983, daughter of a Swiss father and a French mother. She received her first piano lesson at the age of 6 and three years later was accepted into the music conservatory of Geneva where she pursued her music studies in piano and violin. At the age of 15, Katia was accepted into a "Pre-Professional Section of Piano" in Geneva. After her graduation in 2003 where she was awarded a prize for best composition, she decided to relocate to Holland to study with American pianist Alan Weiss (laureate of the Queen Elizabeth Competition). In 2007 Katia decided to come back to Switzerland (Zurich) to study with the German pianist Eckart Heiligers, member of the Jean-Paul Trio. Katia has participated in many piano master classes, held by such musicians as Gyorgy Sandor, Jeremy Menuhin, Maria Jao Pires, Alexis Golovine, Tomasz Herbut, Sylviane Deferne, Igor Blagodatov, Martha Argerich and Robert Greenhouse (cellist from "Beaux-Art trio"). She received a grant to study with Menahem Pressler, Anton Kuerti and André Laplante in Toronto, Canada. (2007) Katia has peformed in several prestigious venues, including the Zurich Tonhalle, the "Bösendorfer Hall" in Vienna and the Centre of Music in Utrecht. Katia performed on the Queen Mary II in January 2013. Katia Braunschweiler’s tracks Chopin Valse in E minor by Katia Braunschweiler published on 2013-12-19T13:41:41Z Scarlatti Sonata in G Major by Katia Braunschweiler published on 2013-12-19T13:08:08Z Scarlatti Sonata in F Minor 466 by Katia Braunschweiler published on 2013-12-19T13:02:32Z Chopin Fantasie-Impromptu op.66 by Katia Braunschweiler published on 2013-12-19T12:54:32Z Chopin Waltz Minute by Katia Braunschweiler published on 2013-12-19T12:45:32Z