Pianist Sophie Pacini emerged in the 2010s as living proof that the traditional career path leading through well-established Classical-Romantic repertory was still viable. She showed major talent even before taking any serious lessons, making her concert debut in 2000 at the age of eight. Pacini won several prizes and scholarships in the 2000s, but her next real breakthrough came in 2010 when she met top pianist Martha Argerich, who has since emerged as the young pianist's mentor. Pacini made her major-label debut in 2016 with a Beethoven and Liszt recital. She followed that up in 2018 with the recital album In Between, performing works by Schumann and Mendelssohn. Pacini joined clarinetist Pablo Barragán in 2022 to issue the album Boundless.