Alexandria Dariescu

Featured as BBC Music Magazine's Rising Star in June 2011, Alexandra Dariescu is an outstanding communicator, hugely popular with audiences.

During the 2011/12 season she makes her debut at the Weill Recital Hall in Carnegie Hall, performs Beethoven's Emperor Concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at the Barbican, Shostakovich's Concerto No.1 with the St. Paul's Orchestra at the South Bank, the Elgar Quintet with the Elias Quartet and gives the world premiere of a piano concerto by Emily Howard with the Liverpool Mozart Orchestra. In September she recorded her first CD for Champs Hill Records.

Recent concert appearances have included Wigmore Hall, City of London Festival, the International Piano series at the Royal Concert Hall Nottingham and Schumann with the Belcea Quartet. In summer 2011 Alexandra gave a series in Argentina and returned to give masterclasses and concerts at the Geneva International Summer Festival and Academy. She is one of the first artists to take part in the RPS/YCAT Philip Langridge Mentoring Scheme with Imogen Cooper.

Selected by YCAT in 2008, last summer Alexandra was a Laureate at the Verbier Festival Academy where she won the CUBS Bank Verbier Festival & Academy Prize. She went on to win the Guildhall School of Music & Drama Wigmore Hall Prize and the Romanian Ambassador's prize for her outstanding contribution to promoting Romania's image in the UK.

Born in 1985, Alexandra Dariescu studied at the Royal Northern College of Music graduating in 2008 with distinction. She went on to win the prestigious Prix Maurice Ravel at the Academie Internationale de Musique Ravel in France and to complete her Masters at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Ronan O'Hora.

www.alexandradariescu.com

 

Quotes

International Piano/ Michael Church Wigmore Hall May-June 2011

"A Wigmore appearance was 25-year-old Alexandra Dariescu's reward for winning the Guildhall Recital Prize, and she bravely went off-piste with Bartok's Suite op 14 and a complex Dutilleux rarity. Schumann's Abegg Variations and the Liszt- Wagner "Liebestod" allowed her to demonstrate her tender and vivid approach to the keyboard."

 

Nottingham Post Royal Concert Hall Nottingham/Beethoven Triple Concerto July 2011

'....their playing achieved the intimate rapport which is chamber music's essential ingredient....'

 

Nottingham Evening Post Sinfonia ViVa/Beethoven 3/Andre de Ridder November 2009

Soloist Alexandra Dariescu gave a stylish, purposeful and robust performance of the concerto with clean attack and clarity of articulation.

 

Musical Opinion Purcell Room Nov-Dec 2008 issue

'The Romanian pianist Alexandra Dariescu gave Mozart's late Dupont Variations with an admirable sense of style, and Chopin's B minor Sonata. This was very powerfully projected with an admirable delineation of character allied to strong poetic feeling'.

 

Manchester Recital Series 2008

Her playing combines effortless technical control with an individual approach to sound, particularly exemplified in her playing of Chopin.

 

Nelson Goerner 2008

Alexandra Dariescu is a highly sensitive, intelligent, mature artist. Her playing has imagination, flair, deep comprehension of the spirit of the music she plays, and she has got the fingers to implement her ideas.