Bernice Sammut Attard, Pianist – Biography
“Ever since competing in the 2018 Eurovision Young Musicians Competition, Bernice Sammut Attard has gone from strength to strength, quickly emerging as one of Malta’s top young talents.”
Born in 2000, Bernice Sammut Attard is a Maltese pianist and violinist who is currently furthering her piano studies in Paris with Marian Rybicki and Qing Li at the École Normale de Musique de Paris. Her violin teacher is Ruth Hahn. Bernice has been a prize-winner in numerous competitions. Most notably, she was the winner of the Malta Eurovision Young Musicians 2018 competition. In October 2023, she graduated with a Master of Arts in Music degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In July 2022, she graduated with a First-Class Honours Bachelor of Music degree from the same institution. Throughout her studies she was a student of Petras Geniušas, Sinae Lee and Fali Pavri.
Upcoming concerts this season include performances in London and Malta. Most recently Bernice performed solo piano recitals in Malta, Manchester, and Edinburgh. On the 26 of February 2024, Bernice performed Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of Anu Tali.
Over the past years, Bernice has performed in many countries including the UK, France, Poland, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Armenia, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, Kazakhstan, and the USA (Seattle). She has performed at prestigious venues including the Royal Festival Hall, Bridgewater Hall and the Stoller Hall in the UK, at the Manoel Theatre, the Mediterranean Conference Centre, and Pjazza Teatru Rjal in Malta, and at Salle Cortot in Paris.
Bernice has performed piano concertos in Russia, Italy, Portugal and Malta with various orchestras including Kyiv Virtuosi Orchestra, Sicily Symphony Orchestra, Porto Conservatory Orchestra, North Caucasus Orchestra, Eurasian Symphony Orchestra, Ryazan Symphony Orchestra and the Astrakhan Symphony of the Astrakhan Opera and Ballet Theatre ‒ collaborating with various conductors including Dmitry Yablonsky, Alexei Galea Cavallazzi, Mikhail Kirchhoff, Sergey Oselkov and William Garfield Walker.
At the age of 16, she became the first Maltese musician to attend the UK’s prestigious music school Chetham’s School of Music, where she studied piano and violin as a joint principal study with Duncan Glenday and Ruth Hahn respectively. Bernice commenced her studies at an early age in Malta, studying piano with Karen Briscoe and violin with Marcelline Agius.
Bernice is currently supported by the BOV Joseph Calleja Foundation and the Janatha Stubbs Foundation. She is also a scholarship holder of the École Normale de Musique de Paris.
