Burla wins prize from the town of Zofingen
As a Schenk Foundation prizewinner (2020), Alice Burla performed at the Schenk Foundation prizewinners' concert in Zofingen and won the special "Prize of the City of Zofingen" (audience prize) with a magnificent performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2.
Born in 1996, Alice Burla was one of the youngest students ever accepted to the Juilliard School; from 2013 to 2016 she studied with Dmitri Bashkirov at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid and is currently studying with Claudio Martínez-Mehner and Anton Kernjak in Basel.
Founded in 1995, the Zofingen Foundation supports music students at the highest level of training with a view to obtaining the Specialized Master Soloist Diploma (formerly the Soloist Diploma). According to the foundation's statutes, the focus is on creating opportunities for students to work with an orchestra.