Sonya Pigot’s performing career has taken her to prestigious venues worldwide such as Wigmore Hall, Steinway Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and concert halls throughout Asia, Australia, and Europe. In January 2025, she was a semifinalist at the Liszt Utrecht International Piano Competition held at TivoliVredenburg in the Netherlands. 

Sonya completed her Undergraduate, Master’s, and Artist Diploma degrees at the Royal College of Music, studying with renowned professors including Norma Fisher, Sofya Gulyak, Ashley Wass, Dimitri Alexeev, and Ian Jones. She currently holds a scholarship for a PhD at the RCM, exploring the relationship between personality and musical interpretation.

She has performed for members of the British Royal Family and won prizes at numerous international competitions, including the Busoni International Piano Competition, Grand Prize Virtuoso International Music Competition (First Prize), Berliner International Music Competition (Gold Medal), Hephzibah Menuhin Memorial Award (First Prize), and Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Rising Star competition (First Prize).

Supported by Talent Unlimited, Sonya looks forward to performing as a “New Artist” at Steinway Hall in London for the Keyboard Charitable Trust. She has appeared with orchestras since age 15, including performances of Saint-Saëns’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra under Richard Gill AO and with the Perugia Symphony Orchestra conducted by Marius Stravinsky.

Sonya has participated in master classes with Alfred Brendel, Boris Berman, John Perry, Ewa Pobłocka, and Pavel Gililov. Alongside her solo career, she is scheduled to perform with violinist David Nebel, concertmaster of the Berlin Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, in the 2025/26 season.