Adela Liculescu

Adela Liculescu (* 1993 in Craiova ) is a Romanian pianist who specializes in classical music .

Life

Adela Liculescu started playing the piano at the age of four. Since graduating with distinction from Mihai Ungureanu at the Musik-Gymnasium in her hometown, she has been studying with Martin Hughes at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. She mainly gave her concerts in German-speaking countries and Romania.

Liculescu placed her musical focus on the works of Mozart , Beethoven , Chopin , Schumann , Rachmaninov , Tchaikovsky , Prokofiev and Liszt . The highlights of her career so far have included the performance of Ludwig van Beethoven's 2nd Piano Concerto with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and the Romanian Symphony Orchestra, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 21st Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philamonikers.

Liculescu has won several prizes and competitions to date, including the Prix du Piano Bern (2018), the Yamaha Music Prize Austria, the Brahms competitions in Detmold and Pörtschach (both 2017) and the Bösendorfer Piano Competition (2015). The second Brahms competition gave her the opportunity to publish her first CD. She was also successful at the Elena Rombro-Stepanow Piano Competition (Vienna 2012), the Cantu Concert Competition (Italy 2015), the Beethoven Competition (Vienna 2013), the Carl Filtsch Competition (Hermannstadt 2002, 2006 and 2009) and the Orange Prizes for young musicians “(Bucharest 2008). Between 2007 and 2012 she won first prizes at the Music Olympiads in Romania. In 2020 she received the Beethoven Prize of the Romanian radio station "Radio România Cultural".

Web links

• Homepage
• Interview with Adela Liculescu on rotart.at from August 22, 2017
• Detailed biography on hellostage.com (engl.)