Born on La Palma in 2009, Anouk began playing the cello at the age of six.
Since autumn 2025, she has been pursuing her bachelor’s degree with Prof. Danjulo Ishizaka at the Musikakademie Basel.
She has received important artistic guidance from Antonio Meneses, Conradin Brotbeck, Wen-Sinn
Yang, Marie-Elisabeth Hecker, Jens-Peter Maintz, Troels Svane, Thomas Grossenbacher, Robert Levin, Claudio Martínez Mehner and Dénes Várjon.
As scholarship holder of the International Music Academy Liechtenstein, she regularly participates in its masterclasses and concert series.
She first came to public attention when, at just 7 years old, she won the International Rising Star Competition, which included a performance at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie. She subsequently won numerous first prizes with distinction at the Swiss Youth Music Competition and at the German Jugend Musiziert, in the categories cello, baroque cello, duo and piano trio.
Due to her achievements she has been a scholarship holder of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation for young artists from 2022 to 2025. In duo with her sister, she also received the WDR Classical Music Prize, with the performance broadcast by WDR.
In 2022, she won both First Prize and the Jury Special Prize at the International Dotzauer Competition, as well as First Prize at the International Luigi Cerritelli Competition, where she additionally received the Young Artist Award. Further distinctions include prizes at the International Anton Rubinstein Competition and the International Young Ludwig Competition, and she was awarded the Lions Music Prize 2024.
Anouk Toth has already established a vibrant concert career, performing throughout Europe. She made her orchestral debut at the age of 10 with the Budweis Symphony Orchestra and has since appeared as a soloist with the Norddeutsche Philharmonie under Marcus Mast at the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Lyra Chamber Orchestra Vienna, and the Heidelberg Philharmonic Orchestra at the Schwetzingen Mozart Festival. She is regularly invited to renowned festivals including the Gstaad Baroque Festival, Festival Automne Musical d’Olon (AMO) and the Chios Music Festival. In 2025, she was featured as Duo with her sister in the Jeunes Découvertes series in La Prairie, Biel.
As a passionate chamber musician, she has performed at the YARO Excellence Chamber Music Forum alongside artists such as Valeriy Sokolov, Friedrich Thiele and Julia Hamos. Anouk Toth performs successfully with her siblings Anatol and Manoush in the Toth Piano Trio Toth, which has received multiple awards as best ensemble at the Swiss and the German Youth Music Competition . In 2019, the trio was invited to the Trame Sonore Mantua Chamber Music Festival. This was followed by performances of Beethoven’s triple Concerto with the Erzgebirgische Philharmonie under Jens Bachmann, as well as at the opening concert of the Murten Classics Festival 2025 with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra Hradec Králové under the baton of Christoph-Matthias Müller.
Since November 2025, she has been a member of the LGT Young Soloists, with whom she tours internationally.
She performs on a fine cello by Sébastian Philippe Bernadel (1838), generously on loan from the Deutsche Stiftung Musikleben.
Alongside her musical career, she is deeply devoted to classical painting.





