Biography

Tanja Sonc was born in Slovenia in 1992. She started playing the violin at the age of five. She first studied with Primož Novšak at the Ljubljana Music Academy. At the Mozarteum University in Salzburg she continued her education in the class of Igor Ozim and Wonji Kim Ozim. From 2012 to 2017, she studied at the Zurich University of the Arts in the class of Nora Chastain and graduated with honors.

Tanja received a scholarship from the International Music Academy in Liechtenstein and took part in the intensive music weeks and activities of the academy.

She has received many prizes at national and international competitions. Among other things, she won the 1st prize and two special prizes at the “New Stars International Music Online Competition” 2016. In 2015, she received the 3rd prize at the “Kiwanis Competition Zurich”, and in 2012 she won the “Ferdo Livadic International Competition for Young Musicians” (Croatia ) and in 2011 the “Brahms Competition” in Pörtschach, Austria. In 2009, she won the “Temsig Competition” in Slovenia and in 2007 the “Young Virtuoso Etudes and Scales Competition” in Zagreb.

In 2012, Tanja passed the audition for the one-year orchestral internship of the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich. Since then, she has been working there as a newcomer. She has been a member of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra since the 2017/2018 season. As a soloist, she played with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Slovenian RTV Symphony Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra and the Croatian RTV Symphony Orchestra.

In 2014, Tanja won the audition for the Seiji Ozawa International Academy and took part in the Hohenstaufen Chamber Music Academy in 2015 and 2016. In 2015, she was invited to the International Musicians Seminar in Prussia Cove. She has worked with conductors such as Marko Letonja, George Pehlivanian, Keri Lynn Wilson, Loris Voltolini, Tomislav Facini, Simon Dvoršak and Petko Dimitrov. She is Artist in Residence at the Molaeb Festival in Lebanon and founded the Sonc Festival, a chamber music festival in Slovenia.

Tanja was a scholarship holder in the support program for young musicians of the Notenstein La Roche Private Bank. She has received a grant from Live Music Now Switzerland since 2015 and from Villa Musica Rheinland-Pfalz since 2017.