Born in 1997, Vitor Zendron da Cunha took his first piano lesson at the age of eight. Between 2008 and 2015, he studied at the Carlos Gomes Conservatory in Blumenau (Brazil) and took part in the main festivals of Latin America. He continued his education at the Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe under Sontraud Speidel, where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in 2020 and participated in masterclasses with artists such as Klaus Hellwig and Cyprien Katsaris. From 2020 to 2022, he studied at the Haute École de Musique in Lausanne.

Vitor won first prize at the Edna Habith National Competition and the Federico Chopin Piano Competition (Peru) in 2013. In 2015, he was a finalist in the Prelúdio competition, broadcast on Brazilian national television. In 2019, he received the “Gerold Joachim Förderpreis” in Germany, and in 2022 the “Prix Mireille Klemm” awarded by the Geneva Chopin Society. He has performed in prestigious venues such as the Sala São Paulo, the Gran Teatro Nacional de Lima, and the Warsaw Music Society, and has collaborated with conductors such as Júlio Medaglia, Kevin Griffiths, and Pierre-Stéphane Meugé.

He is currently enrolled in the Soloist Master’s program at the Haute École de Musique de Genève in the class of Ricardo Castro. Vitor has also studied orchestral conducting from the keyboard at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole (Italy). He regularly gives solo and chamber music recitals in Brazil and Switzerland.