About
“Her interpretation is nothing short of a revelation.” (Pierre Gervasoni, Le Monde).
Born in Paris in 2002, Bella Schütz is pursuing a career at the intersection of solo piano, chamber music and vocal repertoire. A prizewinner at international competitions including Vigo (5th Prize and Paul Lewis Prize), the Concours International de Piano de Lyon and Piano Campus, she has performed at numerous concert series and festivals, including the Nohant Festival Chopin, Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, crescendo festival Berlin, Festival d’Auvers-sur-Oise, Piano en Valois, Festival Baroque de Pontoise, Concerts d’Automne (Tours), International Chigiana Festival and Teatro Cultura Artística (São Paulo). Praised for her “assured playing, […] its simplicity that brings her as close as possible to the musical text” (Jean-Charles Hoffelé, Artamag’), she was a member of the Académie Jaroussky, mentored by Cédric Tiberghien, and is supported by the Safran and Lieven Foundations. She is also a regular guest on Générations France Musique, presented by Clément Rochefort.
Bella Schütz’s first solo album, Chiaroscuro, released by Evidence in 2025, is devoted to Bach and Chopin. The programme brings together works of an improvisatory character by the two composers, highlighting their virtuosity while bringing them into dialogue across their distinct historical periods. The album reached one million streams on streaming platforms less than a month after its release and was warmly received by critics: “Bella Schütz’s playing exhibits a rare balance of technical brilliance and emotional depth. […] She reaffirms her place among the next generation of great pianists.”(Steven Miller, Sound in Review)
Since 2021, Bella Schütz has formed the Trio Callas with Portuguese violinist Miguel Rocha and Brazilian-Japanese cellist Lucas Garcia Muramoto. The ensemble is a prizewinner of the FNAPEC competition, and Brazilian composer and jazz musician André Mehmari has dedicated, his piece Portais brasileiros #5 to the trio, which features on their first album, released in 2025. Recorded at the composer’s studio in São Paulo, the album is the first in a projected series of six, devoted to the complete piano trios of Mozart and Brahms.
Bella Schütz is also deeply passionate about vocal repertoire, with a particular interest in Lied, nourished by her command of the German language and her love of German-language literature. She was a finalist, with tenor Antonin Rondepierre, in the Helmut Deutsch Competition in Vienna. She is also actively involved in contemporary music and has notably given the premiere in Berlin of the virtuosic piano concerto Unfolding Bodies by Çya Bazzaz. Through solo repertoire, chamber music, Lied and contemporary music, Bella Schütz explores the many possibilities for dialogue offered by the piano and seeks to create programmes that bring works from different periods and aesthetic traditions into resonance with one another, while drawing inspiration for her musical thinking from encounters with other art forms.
Since 2025, Bella Schütz has continued her studies with Elisso Virsaladze at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. Until 2026, she studied at the Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) in the class of Björn Lehmann. She previously obtained her Master’s degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) in the class of Jan Jiracek von Arnim, following a Bachelor’s degree at the University Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of Jacques Rouvier. Prior to this, she studied for two years at the CRR de Paris with Yves Henry, having initially been trained by Branka Balevic.
