Vita

“Ingrid Marsoner is a wonderful pianist – the musical intelligence and incredible sensitivity, particularly the clarity and intensity of her Schubert and Mozart interpretations, moved me deeply.“

These are words from the world-renowned composer Beat Furrer after hearing her at the Vienna Konzerthaus and without doubt, Ingrid Marsoner is regarded as one of the most sensitive and expressive pianists of her generation. Her deeply emotional interpretations, shaped with subtlety and refined detail, resonate profoundly with audiences and critics alike.

Concerts

Her performances have taken her to renowned venues such as the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, the Vienna Konzerthaus, Carnegie Hall, the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, and the Oriental Performing Arts Centre in Shanghai. She appeared at festivals including the Wiener Festwochen, Styriarte, the Merano Music Festival, Carinthian Summer, the Piano Festival Rarities of Piano Music in Husum, the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago, the Philharmonic Society Gibraltar, among others.

Collaboration

As a soloist, she has performed with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Philippe Jordan), the ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien (Cornelius Meister), the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne (Thomas Rösner), the Symphony Orchestra of the National Philharmonic of Ukraine (Mykola Diadiura), the Beethoven Philharmonie (Christoph Campestrini) and numerous other orchestras across Europe and beyond.

Moreover, Ingrid Marsoner is an enthusiastic chamber musician. Together with legendary actor Klaus Maria Brandauer, she has given numerous word-and-music recitals. Her performance at the Carinthian Summer Festival was described by the press as “a highly inspired collaboration between two exceptional artists.”

CD Recordings

Widely acclaimed for her interpretations of Franz Schubert, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadé Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach (Goldberg Variations), and Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Marsoner has released seven recordings on the Gramola label. Her recording of Beethoven’s Sonatas Op 78, Op 101, and Op 111 received a Pizzicato Supersonic Award. Her recent Schubert album was nominated for the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) 2025 in the Solo Instrumental category. One of her recordings – Piano Concertos by Beethoven and Hummel (with Thomas Rösner and the Orchestre Symphonique Bienne) – was featured among the “Highlights” in Crescendo magazine. Additional recordings include works by Mozart, Rick LaSalle, Schumann, Grieg, Janáček, and Dussek. She also recorded Hector Berlioz’s Le pêcheur with Cyrille Dubois and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Philippe Jordan.

Musical Life

Described by Radio Klassik as “one of the most versatile pianists worldwide,” her repertoire ranges from Bach’s Goldberg Variations, the great classical works and rarities to contemporary music. She has given premieres and first performances including Beat Furrer’s Drei Klavierstücke (American premiere), world premiere recordings of Rick LaSalle’s Sonatas and Rondo alla Joplinesca, as well as the Austrian premieres of Darius Milhaud’s Fourth and Fifth Piano Concertos at Vienna’s Konzerthaus. She was the first classical pianist to perform in a Brazilian favela (Favela Jacarezinho, Rio de Janeiro).

Ingrid Marsoner grew up in Graz in a family of musicians and began playing the piano at the age of four. At eleven, she started her studies at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz with Sebastian Benda, a pupil of Edwin Fischer, supported by the Martha Debelli Scholarship. She later continued at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with the legendary Georgian pianist Rudolf Kehrer. She also received great artistic inspiration from Tatiana Nikolayeva, Jürgen Uhde, Paul Badura-Skoda, and Alfred Brendel.

Already in her youth she won first prizes at the Young Artists Peninsula Music Festival in Los Angeles, the Jeunesses Musicales Competition,  as well as second prize at the Steinway Competition. She was as a jury member at the Austrian Federal and styrian Competition “Prima la Musica”  as well as the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig.