Sophie-Elizabeth Wagner was born in Bonn in 2013. She began playing the piano at the age of five. That same year, she gave her debut concert alongside her brother Alexander at the Shanghai Concert Hall in China.
Sophie has won numerous first prizes at prestigious international piano competitions, both in her age group and in open categories, including the 10th International Piano Competition in Milan, the 15th Junior International Piano Competition, the 9th César Franck Piano Competition in Brussels, the International Music Festival in Paris, and the 18th International MozArte Piano Competition, the 26th and 30th Carl Schröder Competition, the 1st Kronberg International Piano Competition, the 9th Carl Bechstein Piano Competition, the “Jugend musiziert” National Competition, and the 30th International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Children and Youth in Szafarnia, Poland, among others.
Sophie has already given numerous solo piano recitals in Germany, Italy, France, Belgium, Austria, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and China. Together with her brother Alexander, she has been invited to perform at many internationally renowned festivals and in major concert halls. These include, among others, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (SHMF), De Bijloke Concert Hall in Belgium, the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg, the Shanghai Concert Hall, the New Year’s Concert at the Vienna Konzerthaus, and the Chopin Festival in the Netherlands. Sophie also participated in the 23rd Shanghai International Arts Festival. There, together with conductor Tang Mu Hai, she performed Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 for the audience.
Her hobbies include dancing, drawing, good food, and traveling. She also enjoys playing video games.
(As of June 2026)
Photos: Wen Wagner
