Maria Radutu

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Maria Radutu (born September 15, 1984 in Bucharest , Romania ) is an Austro-Romanian pianist .

Life

Training and awards

Maria Radutu grew up in a prefabricated building in the Drumul Taberei district of Bucharest, where around a quarter of the national orchestra of the Romanian radio also lived. At the age of six she received her first piano lessons and then attended the George Enescu Music High School. At the age of nine she appeared for the first time publicly on Romanian national television in the program of the music critic and musicologist Iosif Sava . In addition to the annual high school prizes, she won more than 20 national and international prizes, including first place with a medal in the “Maryse Cheilan” competition in France, the “Primo Premio Assoluto” in Moncalieri, the “Valentio Bucchi” competition in Rome and first place at the "Paul Constantinescu" competition in Ploiesti, Romania. At the age of twelve she made her debut in the Great Hall of the Romanian Radio in Bucharest under the conductor Ludovic Bacs with Mozart's Piano Concerto in B flat major KV 238 .

In 1998 she took first place in the Romanian National Olympiad. In the same year she received a long-term scholarship from the Romanian Academy on the recommendation of Iosif Sava and moved to Vienna, where she studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, first with Stefan Vladar and later with Stefan Arnold . During this time she gave piano recitals in Austria, Romania, Italy, the Czech Republic, France and Spain. During her training, she played Rachmaninoff's 2nd piano concerto with the conductor Georg Kugi in the Great Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2005 she passed the first diploma examination with distinction, coupled with the Benjamin Prize for the best and youngest candidate. In 2010 she received her concert diploma.

Career

Piano recitals and orchestral concerts have taken her from Carnegie Hall in New York to the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut and the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden to Beijing , where she opened the Mozart Year in 2006 with Lang Lang and Dominik Hellsberg . This was followed by concerts in the Golden Hall of the Wiener Musikverein , in the Great Hall of the Wiener Konzerthaus , in the Salle Gaveau in Paris with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra or in the great hall of the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid with the Orquesta Clasica Santa Cecilia and an Asia tour in 2016 with the radio -Symphonieorchester Wien under Cornelius Meister . In January 2017 she made her USA debut in Las Vegas and San Francisco with Mozart's Piano Concerto in A major KV 488 with the Las Vegas Symphony Orchestra and the California Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Donato Cabrera . In 2016 and 2018 she was engaged as a guest soloist at the Vienna State Opera and played music by the Swedish composer Mikael Karlsson and from Chopin's 1st Piano Concerto with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra .

As a soloist and chamber musician, she has participated in various festivals, including the Carinthian Summer in Ossiach , the chamber music concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic in the Vienna State Opera, the Neuberger Festtage , the Halbturn Palace Concerts and the Pannonian Forum Kittsee .

Always striving to combine classical music and modern art , she works with artists from the fields of design, visual and dance. Composers such as Margareta Ferek Petric , Mikael Karlsson , Marco Annau , Thomas Wally , Florian C. Reithner dedicated works to her that can be heard on their albums or in recitals.

Maria Radutu is DECCA artist for concept albums, in June 2016 her album Insomnia was released by Decca . Her debut album Joujoux was released by Preiser Records in 2013 .

Discography

Chamber music

PhilSound

In 2008 she founded PhilKlang , a chamber music ensemble made up of members of the Vienna Philharmonic . After the successful debut in the Wiener Konzerthaus followed engagements in the Vienna State Opera, the Auditorio National in Madrid, the musical design of the festival Kontrapunkte in Lafnitz (Styria), as well as the artistic direction of the festival SoundGarden - "PhilKlang & Friends @ Casino Baumgarten " in Vienna which took place in 2012 and 2013.

New piano trio

From 2013 to 2017 she was the pianist and founding member of the groovy-unconventional New Piano Trio with Florian Willeitner (violin and composition) and Ivan Turkalj (cello), with whom she crossed the boundaries of classical, folk and jazz, her album NP3 was named “ Classic Revolution "celebrated.

Building bridges

The summer of 2015 triggered a wave of refugees in Europe that moved many artists. Inspired by Royston Maldoom's community projects, Radutu founded and led Building Bridges , an organization that facilitated workshops and concerts with and for unaccompanied refugee minors.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Boesch Private Foundation . mdw.ac.at. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  2. ↑ Tracklist Insomnia from Universal Austria accessed on August 8, 2019
  3. ↑ Joujoux track list from Preiser Records accessed on August 8, 2019
  4. ↑ Chamber music of the Vienna Philharmonic . wiener-staatsoper.at. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  5. ↑ Solistas de la Filarmónica de Viena en los ciclos de Excelentia ( Spanish ) docenotas.com. October 21, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  6. ↑ SoundGarden Festival / Casino Baumgarten, Vienna . ORF. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Concerto issue 04/2016 . Article dated February 1, 2016, accessed August 8, 2019.
  8. ↑ New Piano Trio in the MuTh . Retrieved August 8, 2019
  9. ^ Interview Building Bridges with Maria Radutu in Musica Austria . Article dated March 10, 2016, accessed August 8, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Radutu, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian-Romanian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest