Biography

Margrit Julia Zimmermann is winner of many international piano competitions, including the International Johannes Brahms Competition in Austria and International Piano Competition in Roma, in Italy. An important part of her career has been as a performing artist through recitals, solo performances with orchestras and as a chamber musician. Her extensive tours through U.S. and Europe have featured performances from New York's David Geffen Hall in the Lincoln Center, to the Rachmaninoff Hall in Moscow, to the great hall of the Graz Musichochschule in Austria, Great Hall of Vilnius Philharmonie (Lithuania), and Sala Beethoven, and Teatro Isauro Martinez (Mexico).

As an avid chamber musician, she is featured in numerous highly-acclaimed recordings with instrumentalists and vocalists alike: Art Songs with Mikhail Svetlov (Hartshorn Classical), Works for Flute and Piano: L.Boulanger, V.Janárčekova, B.Heller (SALTO record, Germany), Works for Violin and Piano: A.Schnittke, O.Balakauskas and A.Pärt on ProSound Record and ASV Record (UK). As a soloist with the orchestra: Concertino for Piano and Chamber Orchestra of O.Balakauskas on BIS Record (Sweden).

Margrit Julia Zimmermann is a winner of the Arts Prize of the Wolfgang-Zippel Foundation. She was a founder and for many years Artistic Director of the International Music Festival "Cascades" and long term Artist-in-Residence of Alliance University in New York.

She has performed in major music centers worldwide such as Avery Fisher Hall, Moscow Conservatoire, Hall of Vilnius Philharmonie, Philharmonie Hall in Kaunus, Organ Hall in Kishinev, Vienna Hall of the MusicTheater Society, Graz Music Hall, Kaliningrad Philharmonic Hall, Sala Beethoven, and Teatro Isauro Martinez among others. In 2007 she made her debut in Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall.