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About

Pianist imbued with the colors of the artistic world as a child, she always seeks freedom and spontaneity in music. This arises from her interest in the popular music of oral traditions in union with the classical repertoire. Both of these aspects make her interpretations intense, personal and direct.
 
Having begun in music at the age of seven in Bucharest, under the guidance of Ruxandra Papacostea, she went on studying with great masters and artists who have guided her learning: names such as Mariana Gurkova, Claudio Martínez Mehner, Nino Kereselidze, Chang Rook-Moon, Manuel Ramirez and Hector Sanchez, with whom she has been working regularly, or Eldar Nebolsin, Alexander Kandelaki, Rita Wagner, Tibor Szászor and Josep Colom, whose masterclass she has attended.
 
She debuted as a soloist with the orchestra of the Academia de Dirección of Maestro George Pehlivanian, in the Cultural Center Buenavista, conducted by Hugo Gómez Chao. She has also performed in Madrid on different stages such as the Cultural Center Moncloa, the Galileo Cultural Center and the Instituto Ramiro de Maeztu. She has performed several times at the Eutherpe Foundation in Leon and the Auditorium Eduardo del Pueyo in Zaragoza, as a soloist and member of different chamber instrumental groups.
 
She ended her master studies in soloist interpretation with works by Brahms, Bartók and Enescu, under the guidance of the pianist Mariana Gurkova and Professor Luca Chiantore in the Centro Superior de Música Katarina Gurska. Her investigation was about the declamatory aspects of the romanian folk rhythmic systems applied to the Sonata for Piano op.24 No.1 by George Enescu: Aspectos declamativos de los sistemas rítmicos folclóricos rumanos  aplicados a la Sonata op.24 nº1 de George Enescu.


In 2022 she finished her Ph.D. in artistic research with Professor Luca Chiantore at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal. The title of her tesis is Parlando rubato: Interpretar las obras para piano de George Enescu a través de los patrones de pronunciación de la "voz" moldava, following his interest in working on pronunciation applied to interpretation. 

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In addition to research, she combines her studies with pedagogical work at Conservatorio Tempo Musical in Madrid and as safoxon class repertoire player at Conservatorio Superior de Música of the Balearic Islands during the 2020-2021 season.

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