Mihaela Ursuleasa

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Mihaela Ursuleasa (Vienna 2011)

Mihaela Ursuleasa (born September 27, 1978 in Brașov ; † August 2, 2012 in Vienna ) was a Romanian pianist .

Life

Mihaela Ursuleasa's father, a Rom , was a jazz pianist, her Moldovan mother was a singer. Mihaela was a child prodigy , already at the age of nine years, the 32 variations of Beethoven played and went on tour. Like a competitive athlete, she should come to technical perfection. In 1990, when she was twelve, she auditioned for conductor Claudio Abbado , who advised her to take more time for intensive musical development. The young artist took this advice, went to Vienna and then stayed there. She largely withdrew from concert and concentrated on her school and pianistic training.

In 1995 she won the International Clara Haskil Piano Competition . Further school education was followed by concerts and recitals. In 1998 she made her debut at the Salzburg Festival with the Mozarteum Orchestra , and in January 1999 she went on tour with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi . In that year she also graduated as a concert pianist with Heinz Medjimorec in Vienna .

This was followed by piano recitals in numerous important music houses, such as the Concertgebouw Amsterdam , the Philharmonie Cologne, the Tonhalle Zurich and the Carnegie Hall New York. Mihaela Ursuleasa has also performed with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , the Orchester National de France , the London Philharmonic Orchestra and often with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra . She was also a guest at several international festivals, including the Lucerne Festival , the Salzburg Festival and the Beethoven Festival in Warsaw .

As a chamber musician, Mihaela Ursuleasa played with the cellist Sol Gabetta and the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja , among others ; with both of them she recorded chamber music works on CD.

Her first solo album, Piano & Forte , was released on October 16, 2009 on the label edel / Berlin Classics and was awarded the ECHO Klassik 2010 in the category “Soloist recording of the year” (19th century, piano). Ursuleasa recorded Ludwig van Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor, the Intermezzi op.117 by Johannes Brahms , Maurice Ravel's cycle Gaspard de la nuit , the first piano sonata by Alberto Ginastera and a toccata by Paul Constantinescu . Her second CD, Romanian Rhapsody , with works by, among others, George Enescu , Paul Constantinescu, Franz Schubert and Béla Bartók was released on March 11, 2011 on the same label.

Mihaela Ursuleasa last lived in Vienna. On August 2, 2012, she was found dead in her Vienna apartment. According to forensic medicine , she died of a cerebral haemorrhage. She left a daughter.

On August 9, 2012, she was buried with military honors in the Bucharest cemetery "Cimitirul Șerban Vodă" (also: "Cimitirul Bellu"), as it were the " Pantheon of Romania".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mihaela Ursuleasa
  2. ↑ Mihaela Ursuleasa is dead Spiegel Online, accessed on August 3, 2012
  3. ↑ WELT.ONLINE , accessed on August 6, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Ursuleasa, Mihaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov
DATE OF DEATH 2nd August 2012
Place of death Vienna , Austria