Contestant

Winner of the Kiefer Hablitzel Göhner Music Prize, Jansen Ryser has performed throughout Europe as well as in the United States. Praised for his musicality, his playing has been described as “combining natural pianism, musical sensitivity, and poetic eloquence.” Invited by numerous festivals, he has performed as a soloist and chamber musician at the Gstaad Menuhin Festival, Weekend Musical de Pully, Kammermusik Festival Basel, Verbier Festival off, Lavaux Classic Festival off, Plovdiv International Chamber Music Festival, Les Jardins Musicaux de Cernier, Vienna Young Pianist, and Art et Musique de Sierre.
Regularly performing with orchestras, Jansen Ryser made his debut at the age of fifteen on the prestigious stage of the Menuhin Festival in Gstaad and in 2014 at the Victoria Hall in Geneva.
Recently, he performed alongside the Sinfonieorchester Basel in Prokofiev’s Concerto No. 1 at the Stadt Casino in Basel.
His longstanding collaboration with soprano Sophie Negoïta has led them to stand out in the Nadia and Lili Boulanger competition in Paris as well as to pursue a Post-Graduate in Lied duo at the Mozarteum in Salzburg in Stephan Genz’s class.
Born in 1994 in Lausanne, Jansen Ryser began piano at the age of 5. He graduated from the Haute école de musique de Genève as well as from the Juilliard School in New York thanks to the generosity of the Theodora J. Nicolas Piano Scholarship, where he studied under Matti Raekallio, Sylviane Deferne, and Adrian Kreda. He received the Filipinetti Prize in 2017 for the best solo master.
He has furthered his studies with great masters such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Eberhard Feltz, Andreas Staier, Franz Helmerson, and Nelson Goerner. Jansen Ryser is the recipient of the Cultural Scholarship from the Leenaards Foundation as well as from the Dénéréaz Foundation.
Currently, he is pursuing his studies at the Haute école de musique de Bâle in the class of Claudio Martinez-Mehner.