Winner of the Latin GRAMMY® Award, nominated for the ICMA Award, winner of the “Best Recital of the Year" Award by the Association of Art Critics of São Paulo, the William Petschek Prize of the Juilliard School and the First Prize in the International Artists in New York, Sonia Rubinsky is a "profound and refined pianist who leaves nothing to be desired. Her Mozart is articulate, no less singing and clear than that of Perahia or Uchida. Her Scarlatti demonstrates an imperial control of tone. Like her compatriots, the late Guiomar Novaes and Nelson Freire, she has this genius for color which makes her an ideal interpreter of Debussy or Messiaen.”
Born in Brazil, to a Polish mother and a Lithuanian father, Sonia Rubinsky began her studies of music at the Musical Conservatory of Campinas with Olga Rizzardo Normanha. She gave her first recital at the age of 5 and a half and, at 12, she performed as a soloist with orchestra. In order to further her education, she left Brazil to study at the RUBIN Academy in Jerusalem.
At the age of 16, she played to Arthur Rubinstein in the film “Arthur Rubinstein à Jerusalem” who admired her strong temperament. Encouraged by this extraordinary master, she obtains her DMA at the Juilliard School in New York and performs in prestigious concert halls such as Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Bargemusic, Merkin Concert Hall and The Miller Theater in New York, Hertz Hall in Berkeley, Maison de la Radio in Paris, Sala São Paulo and the Teatro Municipal de São Paulo in Brazil, Recanati Hall in Israel, Cadogan Hall in London and AGA-Zaal in the Netherlands.
Her multi-award winning discography (Latin GRAMMY Award, ICMA Award nomination, Editor’s Choice to name just a few) is praised by critics (Le Monde de la Musique, Diapason, Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, ClassicsToday.Com among others). Her many recordings include works by Bach, Debussy, Messiaen, Scarlatti, Mozart, Almeida Prado, Jorge Liderman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninov, as well as the complete piano works by Villa-Lobos.
Since 2011, Sonia Rubinsky has been designated Artist in Residence by Murray Perahia at the Aldwell Center and the Jerusalem Music Center.