Sophia Muñoz
piano
Sought after as a collaborative performer, pianist Sophia Munoz concertizes regularly with Emily D’Angelo, and Cameron Shahbazi, and Hera Hyesang Park. Featured on Deutsche Grammophon’s DG Stage platform with Jonathan Tetelman and Emily D’Angelo, Sophia also accompanied the 2021 Deutsche Grammophon’s Yellowlounge celebrating International Women’s Day with Nadine Sierra, Hera Hyesang Park, and Bomsori Kim, and was featured on a Hope@Home broadcast on ARTE (2020). A graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Program at the Metropolitan Opera (2016), she is currently a member of the music staff at the Dallas Opera, and a visiting faculty member of the Opera Academy of the National Opera in Warsaw, Poland. Past seasons include Assistant Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera for L’Italiana in Algieri (2016) under James Levine, and as a member of the music staff at the Komische Oper Berlin from 2017-2022, she assisted in the musical preparation of operas such as Enescu’s Oedipe (2021), Shostakovich’s Die Nase (2018, 2021), and Henze’s The Bassarids under Vladimir Jurowski (2019). She is also a frequent guest artist at the LacMus Festival in Tremezzina, Lago di Como. In addition, Sophia has performed recitals with artists including Anna Pirozzi, Christiane Karg, Jakub Józef Orliński, René Barbera, Rihab Chaieb, Ewa Płonka, Betty Garces, and Szymon Komasa. She was staff pianist at the Internationale Meistersinger Akademie (2017, 2016, 2015, 2013), and staff pianist at Eppaner Liedsommer (2016). Sophia received her MM (2014) and BM (2012) from Mannes College the New School for Music where she studied with Cristina Stanescu and Vlad Iftinca, who continued the training she received from her formative teacher, Jura Margulis. She speaks English, German, French, Italian, and is studying Polish.
