"Tremendous sense of style, energy and spirit! Panache and colour in abundance, with wonderfully well-articulated passagework. An obvious performer with innate communication skills!"
– Norma Fisher

Biography

Born in La Palma in 2006, Manoush began playing the violin at the age of two and the piano at the age of eight under the guidance of Benjamin Kammerer. In 2025, she completed her bachelor's degree at the Musikakademie Basel with Claudio Martinez Mehner and Zoltán Fejérvári with distinction and received the music prize for the best bachelor's recital.

In addition she completed a minor in Violin with Barbara Doll, the Corso di perfezionamento “conducting from the Piano” in Fiesole with Ricardo Castro and is a scholarship holder of the Academy of Music in Liechtenstein.

Furthermore she received important impulses by renowned artists such as Leonidas Kavakos, Robert Levin, Martin Helmchen, Eldar Nebolsin, Dénes Várjon, András Kemenes, Andreas Staier, Pavel Gililov, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Rena Shereshevskaya, Arie Vardi and more.

At the age of 10, she attracted attention as the winner of the Steinway Piano Competition and went on to win numerous competitions. She was awarded the Lions Club Köniz Culture Prize and, in a duo with her sister Anouk, she won the WDR3 Classic Prize. Her most recent successes include first prize at the Valiant Soloist Competition and, as the youngest participant, third prize at the Rahn Music Prize. She also won the Beecham Competition and the Orbetello Competition. In 2024, she was invited to be a junior juror at the Géza Anda Competition. In 2026, she will represent SRF/Switzerland at the Eurovision Young Musicians in Yerevan, Armenia and is among the twenty five Rising Artists which were chosen to participate in the Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival. She also got invited to the LIEVEN Piano Foundation in Vienna and the Masterclass with Sir András Schiff in Ernen.

Manoush captivates her audiences with her effervescent energy, honest interpretation and colourful, sparkling touch in Italy, Brazil, Greece, France, Austria, Germany and Switzerland. She maintains a vibrant concert schedule – both as a soloist and as part of Trio Toth with her siblings Anatol and Anouk – performing at Festivals such as the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival, Chios Music Festival, Gstaad Baroque Academy, Arosa Classical Music Festival, Mantua Chamber Music Festival and Murten Classics, and in major concert halls such as the Semperoper Dresden, Tonhalle Zurich, Casino Bern, Stadtcasino Basel and Teatro Castro Alves (Brazil).
Having performed with Orchestras like the Kammerorchester Basel, Göttingen Sinfonieorchester, Norddeutsche Philharmonie Rostock, Erzgebirgische Philharmonie, Stadtorchester Solothurn and Filharmonie Hradec Králov underlines her rich experience as a soloist.

She had the pleasure of working alongside musicians like Christoph-Matthias Müller, Barbara Doll, Silke Avenhaus, Walerij Sokolow, Marcus Bosch, Izabelė Jankauskaitė and Gabriel Pernet.