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Ioana Maria Lupascu

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Born in Romania in 1977, she started studying the piano at the age of four and she performs for the first time in public when she was six years old.  In the seventh grade of school she moves to Bucharest, in order better to study the piano at the Musical Highschool “George Enescu” with prof. Lucia Teodorescu. Besides studying and participating in various piano competitions, she performs in recitals-piano solo or chamber music-in different cities from Romania and some, abroad.


 

In 2000 she graduated the Conservatory of Music in Bucharest, then she continues her studies in Switzerland at Conservatoire du Lausanne -where she took the master in Virtuosity Level - but after 3 month  , she moves in Italy, becoming a student of the great pianist Lazar Berman at Accademia Europea di Musica. After graduating the three years Master in Soloistic Performances, she continues working with Maestro Berman until his death, in February 2005. The musical meeting with the great pianist helped her enrich her means of expression, her virtuosity, sound, and depth and Maestro Berman defined her “ beyond any doubt a soloist with huge tehnical and artistic possibilities .” In 2005 she moves back in Romania. She also worked with Valentina Berman, Dag Aschatz, Lucia Teodorescu , Luiz de Moura-Castro.
  Winner, finalist or prize awarded at different national and international piano competitions, among which: "Golden Lyre" Suceava, "Konzerteum" Greece, " Mihail Jora" Bucharest, the Romanian National Piano Competition, "Ferdi & Lili Statzer" Istanbul Turkey - where she was also awarded with the "Vedat Kosal" Prize and so on so forth. She didn’t feel attracted to competitioning and she started her carreer as a concert piano player.
 She performed recitals and concerts in Romania (where she played in front of almost all philharmonic orchestras: Bucharest ( Radio National Orchestra and Bucharest Symphonic Pops ) , Ploiesti, Bacau, Botosani, Cluj , Craiova, Tg. Mures, Arad, Iasi, Timisoara, Sibiu, Galati , Targoviste , Constanta, Satu Mare), Italy, Croatia, Lithuania, Belgium, Slovakia, Switzerland, Turkey, Spain, Maldives.
She was invited to various festivals and she shared the stage with famous artists and performers.  After a recital in Milan the musical critics reffered to her as “ a pianist full of virtyosity”.
In 2007 she played at the Atheneum Hall, Bucharest, at "Proms of Delight" – the Eastern Edition, and she performed at the International Theatre Festival of Sibiu, European Capital of Culture" alongside great personalities. Also in 2007, in the concert that opened the season 2007-2008 she was the first pianist ever to play with newly formed orchestra “Muntenia” Philharmonic Orchestra Targoviste.
She played with conductors such as: J.F. Antonioli, Ovidiu Balan, Brian Barker, Ken Carella, Valentin Doni, Leonard Dumitriu,  Mika Eichenholz, Dorin Frandes, I. Ionescu-Galati, Marius Hristescu, Pietro-Ladislau Horvath,  Koichi Innoue, A. Iosub, Koichiro Kanno, Stefan Novak, Radu Postavaru, I.I.Prunner, Gottfried Rabl, Petre Sbarcea, Tiberiu Soare, Florin Totan, Takiro Ueno, Winston Dan Vogel. She played together with great violinists such as : Ladislau – Pietro Horvath( Italy)  and Florin Paul ( Germany).
In 2008 she was invited to open the season of Sala Puccini - Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi , Milano and she played in other great halls such as: Teatro San Babila Milan, Atheneum Hall Bucharest, Radio Hall Bucharest.
 Since 2007 she is state soloist, the piano concert soloist of “Paul Constantinescu” Philharmonic Orchestra Ploiesti .
 In 2005, after the recital dedicated to the music of the Romanian composer, George Enescu, at the Festival “Romania: Traditional and Artistical Values" that is kept every year in Milan, she became Member of Honour of the "A.R.I." (Associazione dei Rumeni in Italia) Milan.
 In 2007 she releases  theCD – “Live Piano Solo”( Ed. Libris ) - with works by Bach-Busoni, Liszt, Rachmaninov, Silvestri Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and in 2009 “Piano Recital “ ( Ed. Casa Radio) with works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Schubert, Skriabin, Rachmaninov, Bartok. Being interested to open to new repertories, she plays Saeed Sharifian music and less played concerts such as Liszt- Concerto Pathetique for pianoforte and orchestra and Addinsell- Warsaw Concerto.
 Besides music, her wide ranging interests include literature, and so, for three years, while living in Italy  she had been a correspondent journalist from abroad to a Romanian daily magazine, "Monitorul". In 2008 she releases her first non-fiction novel “ Printul Baghetei” ( Ed. Meteor Press ) and since 2009 she publishes cultural or musical articles for different national publications, from which the most important : QMagazine ( from 2011)..
               

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Ioana Maria Lupascu Sep 23, 2012

“Ioana Maria Lupascu is beyond any doubt a soloist with huge tehnical and artistic possibilities ." (Lazar Berman )
"Ioana is an excellent pianist and a craftsman who can bring the highs of a music to its best". Dr. M.Saeed Sharifian.
"La pianista rumena Ioana Maria Lupascu di scena al Conservatorio di Milano : una serata ricca di virtuosismo ." ( Eduardo Caprino , "La voce di Milan")
" Serata in rosa al Conservatorio - Doppio concerto oggi al Conservatorio : in Sala Verdi con la pianista Elisso Virsaladze e alla Puccini con il recital della collega Ioana Lupascu ." ( MetroMag Milano )
" La bravissima pianista rumena Ioana Maria Lupascu al Conservatorio ..." ( Fabio Calderola , La Voce d"Italia )

"Magnifica d'a cappo al fine, Ioana Maria Lupascu a prefacut pianul intr-un legendar retrovizor al epocii romantice preamarind geniul muzical al lui Liszt, prin virtuozitati intraductibile, ce tin de celalalt geniu- cultivat si innascut al solistei.[...]germinatia spiritului lisztian a atins apogeul in intempestiva parte a treia- Allegro animato- aici claviatura supunandu-se ca o sclava euforicei Ioana Maria Lupascu" ( Serghie Bucur "Informatia Prahovei")
"Ioana Maria Lupascu este o solista cu mare soliditate tehnica si fina , dar totodata profunda sensibilitate interpretativa ." ( I.Ionescu-Galati ) " ...pregatirea ei este marcata prin claritatea pasajelor tehnice , fluxul romantic al interpretarii si simtul nativ al frazarii ..." ( Ovidiu Balan ) "...tanara pianista este o aparitie fermecatoare . Emana caldura , feminitate ; te simti bine in preajma ei!Te lasi vrajit de jocul mainilor gratioase-admiri bravura dreptei , contrapunctul iscusit descifrat si pus in valoare al stangii ..."[...]" Universul spiritual al tinerei muziciene lanseaza chemari asemeni unei ...mitice... sirene " [...] " Practica o dramaturgie a demersului muzical : are o incarcatura energetica in expansiune , pasiune , sonoritate calda si incontestabila virtuozitate . "(Daniela Caraman-Fotea " Actualitatea Muzicala") " Profund influentata de maiestria pianistului Lazar Berman , a carui arta o transmite mai departe , Ioana Maria Lupascu ..." ( Iulia Mare , "Faclia Cluj")
" Extraordinara prezenta a Ioanei Maria Lupascu la pian ..." (George Banu , "Evenimentul Zilei")  "Evolutiile sale au dovedit sunet generos , tehnica stralucitoare , sensibilitate atent controlata , forta comunicativa ." ( Petre Codreanu ) "Pianista Ioana Maria Lupascu are pasiunea explorarii detaliului sonor,a minutiozitatii .[...] Recitalul de la Ateneu a fost un succes , Ioana Maria Lupascu are o tehnica viguroasa, sunet bogat , dar si o sensibilitate care nu mizeaza pe bravura , fara insa a o exclude . Publicul vine la auditie si pentru a "vedea" solistul. pe scena Ateneului a intalnit gratie , eleganta ... [...] Talent fermecator , Ioana Maria Lupascu ! " ( Daniela Caraman Fotea , Melos )      "...Ioana Maria Lupascu reliefeaza un discurs de o puternica forta emotionala , cu scantei ." ( Hugo Hauptman ) "Ioana Maria Lupascu , o pianista de mare succes. " ( Costantin Ilie "Gazeta de Sud") " O forta muzicala interpretativa demna de Clara Haskil. [...] Exceptioanala aparitie concertistica a Ioanei Maria Lupascu a marcat viata muzicala  a urbei ( Ploiesti ) cu eleganta imperiala si forta memorabila , duse la sublim . [ ... ] Concertul a revelat o personalitate number one a pianisticii romanesti actuale .[...] Pianista Ioana Maria Lupascu ridica arta solistica la  superlativul atins doar de adevaratii  interpreti . " ( Serghie Bucur "Informatia Prahovei" ) " In Concertul nr.1 pentru pian si orchestra de Fran Liszt , Ioana Maria Lupascu a realizat un parcurs energic ." ( Dan Scurtulescu "Actualitatea Muzicala" ) "Tânăra pianistă Ioana Lupaşcu oferă – cu incredibilă virtuozitate! – decorul sonor al spectacolului, interpretând absolut impecabil, partituri foarte grele de Liszt, Rahmaninov, Schubert, Sharifian, Enescu. La sfârşit, cele două artiste au fost aplaudate, în picioare, mi nute în şir, au fost acoperite cu flori  şi spectatorii nu s-au dat duşi până când nu au obţinut două bis-uri." (Gabriela Hurezean,Cronica Romana despre spectacolul Dor de dragoste...-Ateneul Roman martie 2012) 

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