Swiss clarinettist Martha Verena Zehnder (born 1998) began taking lessons with Ernesto Molinari at the Bern University of the Arts as part of the Bern Conservatoire’s talent development programme while still attending compulsory school. She later began her Bachelor's degree at the same institution, successfully completing it.
In 2022, she was accepted onto Shirley Brill’s Master's programme at the Nuremberg University of Music. Since 2025, she has been studying for a Master's degree in Orchestra Performance with Robert Pickup at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Zehnder has won multiple prizes at the Swiss Youth Music Competition, as well as at the International Competition in Paris and the International Music Competition in Vienna. In winter 2024, she also won second prize in the Mozart Association's Chamber Music Competition.
She gained orchestral experience through the Bern Symphony Orchestra’s Side-by-Side project, among other things, and as a temporary substitute with the Würth Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2023, she was awarded a place at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Academy, and she performed at the Lucerne Festival in 2025.
In 2026, she was awarded an internship with the Bern Symphony Orchestra.
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