Pianist Sophie Pacini emerged in the 2010s as living proof that the traditional career path leading through well-established Classical-Romantic repertory was still viable. She has earned several major awards and has a growing catalog of albums, including the 2022 Aparte release Boundless, on which she accompanied clarinetist Pablo Barragán.
A native of Munich, Germany, Pacini was born on December 12, 1991. She showed major talent even before taking any serious lessons, making her concert debut in 2000 at the age of eight. At ten, she entered the Salzburg Mozarteum in Austria,...