A student of the late Lars Vogt at Hannover’s Hochschule für Musik, Rachel Breen previously completed degrees at Yale University and The Juilliard School. She has enjoyed an active competition career, winning top prizes at the Premi Iturbi (2023), Hans von Bülow Competition (2023), Bösendorfer Competition (2023), Honens Competition (2022), Beethoven Competition Vienna (2021) and Georges Cziffra Competition (2019), among others. She was selected as the 2021-23 National Federation of Music Clubs’ Young Artist in the US and was a 2024 Imogen Cooper Music Trust scholar. Her most recent concert seasons have featured appearances at the Chautauqua Institute, Sarasota Music Festival, Festival Piano aux Jacobins, Southeastern Piano Festival, The San Francisco International Piano Festival, Beethovenfest Bonn, Merkin Hall for IKIF, Festival Liszt en Provence, and Fazioli Hall’s Concert Series. In 2021 she featured in the podcast 30 Bach in a discussion and performance of the Goldberg Variations.

Teachers

2022 - 2024: Mario Härin
2020 - 2022 : Boris Slutsky
2018 - 2022 : Lars Vogt
2014 - 2018 : Julian Martin
2007 - 2014 : Sharon Mann

Degrees

2022 - : Artist Diploma, Hannover Hochschule für Musik
2020 - 2022 : Master of Music, Yale School of Music
2014 - 2018 : Bachelor of Music, The Juilliard School

Concerts

2024 : Toulouse, France, Piano aux Jacobins
2024 : Sarasota, Florida, Sarasota Music Festival, Jeffrey Kahane, Sarasota Orchestra
2024 : Pinehurst, North Carolina, Carolina Philharmonic, David Michael Wolff
2024 : Milan, Italy, Il Pianoforte in Ateneo
2024 : Mendocino, California, Mendocino Music Festival
2024 : London, England, Imogen Cooper Music Trust
2024 : Jakobstad, Finland, Rusk Festival
2024 : Columbia, South Carolina, Southeastern Piano Festival
2024 : Camden, Maine, Bay Chamber Concerts
2024 : Cagnes-sur-Mer, Les Nocturnes du Piano

Competitions

2023 : 3rd Prize, Prize for Best Mozart, Premi Iturbi
2023 : 1st Prize, Prize for Best Performance of Russian Music, Bösendorfer International Piano Competition
2023 : 1st Prize, Bechstein Young Artist Special Prize, Meiningen Hofkapelle Special Prize, Hans von Bülow International Piano Competition
2022 : Raeburn Finalist Prize (runner-up), Honens International Piano Competition
2022 : 1st Prize, Special Prize Paola Bruni, Concorso Internazionale Pianistico Palma D’Oro (Finale Ligure)
2021 : 4th Prize, Special Prize, Beethoven International Competition in Vienna
2019 : 1st Prize, Georges Cziffra International Competition