Sophie Branson is a Swiss/British violinist, born in Tokyo in 2006. From age four she is studying in the violin studio of Liana Tretiakova at the Zakhar Bron School of Music in Zurich, Switzerland. 

At nineteen Sophie is a prize winner of the Wieniawski and Lipinski International Competition in Poland (2024), Competition in the memory of David Oistrakh (2023) and a winner of numerous national and international competitions in Switzerland (SJMW 2019, 2021), Latvia (Rising Stars International Competition in Riga 2020) and Italy (Premio di Padova 2017) as a soloist and chamber musician. In 2022 Sophie debuted at the Tonhalle Zurich, having performed Mozart’s Violin Concerto K.216 with the Zurich Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared there again in 2025 with the Bodensee Philharmonie performing the Brahms Concerto.

She regularly takes masterclasses with Prof. Zakhar Bron in Interlaken, Salzburg and Zurich and also attends masterclasses of such prominent violinists as Maxim Vengerov, Vadim Gluzman, Pavel Vernikov, Svetlana Makarova, Kirill Troussov, Daniel Hope and Esther Hoppe. In 2021 Sophie was accepted in the Kronberg Academy Masterclass as an active participant and in 2023 she received a full scholarship to take a course at the Liechtenstein Music Academy with Prof. Latica Honda Rosenberg. 

Highlights of the concert season 2025/2026 include appearances as a soloist with the Zürcher Symphoniker at the Tonhalle Zürich with the Mendelssohn Concerto and the Bodensee Philharmonie with Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante.

At the age of eight Sophie became a prize winner of the international competition “Crescendo” in Geneva, where in the final round she made her debut as a soloist with the chamber orchestra “Soloists of Neuchâtel” under the baton of Sergei Ostrovsky, and performed the Bach Concerto in A-minor. In the same year she appeared as a soloist with the Pskov Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Arif Dadashev (Moscow) with concertos of Bach and Vivaldi. Since then Sophie has appeared regularly as a soloist with symphony and chamber orchestras in Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Paris, London, Chisinau and Sofia, where she has performed concertos by Bach, Brahms, Bruch, Mozart, Wieniawski and Sibelius and virtuosic pieces by Wieniawski, Sarasate, Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky. 

In 2018, Sophie participated together with Vadim Repin, Alexander Buzlov and Ilva Eigus in the world premiere of Daniel Schnyder’s Concerto Grosso “iGeneration” at the Trans- Siberian Art Festival. With the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, she has also performed Stravinsky’s Italian Suite. Both performances received excellent reviews in “The Strad”.

Since 2021 Sophie is playing on a violin by Stefan Peter Greiner.