The 18th Edition of the Enescu Competition

The Ministry of Culture held a press conference together with ARTEXIM, the organizer of the George Enescu International Festival and Competition. The event was attended by the Minister of Culture Lucian Romașcanu, Sergiu Nistor (Presidential Advisor for the Department of Culture, Cults and National Minorities), Cristian Măcelaru (Artistic Director), Cristina Uruc (ARTEXIM interim manager).

Peng Lin

CHINA Peng Lin is the 1st prize winner of the 2012 Rhodes International Piano Competition. As the winner of the Juilliard Concerto Competition, she made her Lincoln Center debut in 2015 with the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian. She was also a laureate of the UK Piano Open International Competition, Rina Sala Gallo International […]

Timofey Dolya

RUSSIA Timofey Dolya was born in 1993 in Moscow. In 2012 he graduated with honors the Central Music School at the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory (the class of Professor Andrey Pisarev), and in 2017 he graduated the Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory at the same class, receiving the title “The best graduate of 2017” for excellence […]

Ivanova Yoanna

BULGARIA Ivanova Yoanna was born in Rousse in 2000. She started playing the piano at the age of 8 as a student of Krasimira Ivanova at the National School of Arts Prof. Vesselin Stoyanov. She graduated from the same school in 2019. Since 2019 she is a student of Prof. Ivan Donchev in Rome and […]

Ljubica Stojanovic

SERBIA Born in Serbia, Ljubica Stojanovic studied with Aleksandar Šandorov at the University of Arts in Belgrade, and with Caroline Palmer, Ronan O’Hora and David Takeno at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. She currently studies with Christian Petersen in the Konzertexamen programme at the Universität der Künste Berlin. Ljubica performed at the […]

Antonio Chen Guang

CHINA Born in 1994 in China, Antonio Chen Guang has started studying piano at a very young age. He has studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, then at the Juilliard School in New York, followed by the Accademia Pianistica Internazionale di Imola, before continuing now his further education at the Universität für […]

Robert Bily

GERMANY Robert Bily is a 1st prize winner of the Ettlingen International Piano Competition, Johann Nepomuk Hummel International Piano Competition and the International Music Festival in Paris, as well as the 2nd prize winner at the Jinji Lake Suzhou International Piano Competition. Furthermore he won the 1st prize at the Troisdorf International Piano Competition, the […]

Miki Ueda

JAPAN Born in Japan, Miki Ueda has started playing the piano at the age of 5. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Tokyo University of the Arts, where she studied with Prof. Kei Itoh. She was awarded the Tokyo University of the Arts Piano Award, the Doseikai Prize and the Acanthus Music […]

Ayumi Hirata

JAPAN Ayumi Hirata pursued her bachelor studies at the Toho Conservatory in Tokyo with Kooryeong Park, and received her master’s degree from the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in 2020, where she studied under the guidance of Eliso Virsaladze and Jacob Katsnelson. During her official studies, she also participated in a series of masterclasses with pianists […]

Ting-I Lee

Ting-I Lee was born in 1990 in Taipei, Taiwan. She studied at the University of the Arts and the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler in Berlin, and at the Mannes School of Music, New York. She won an honourable mention at the Mannes Concerto Competition in New York in 2012 and was the winner of […]

George Todica

ROMANIA George Todică completed an Artist Diploma degree at the Royal College of Music in 2019 studying with Norma Fisher, and a Masters of Music at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2017, studying with Norman Beedie and Jonathan Plowright. George had his Wigmore Hall debut in October 2018 as a Tillett Trust Young Artist, […]

Ștefan Macovei

ROMANIA Born on April 10, 1999, in Nicosia, Cyprus, Ștefan Macovei is currently in the first year of his master studies at the National Academy of Music Gheorghe Dima in Cluj-Napoca, under the guidance of Prof. Cipriana Gavrișiu, and is also a student of Vincenzo Balzani at the Accademia del Ridotto in Stradella. Stefan won […]

Florian Mitrea

ROMANIA Romanian-born Florian Mitrea was a double-laureate at the Hamamatsu, Glasgow, and ARD-Munich International Piano Competitions, and a major prize-winner at the Harbin Competition in China and James Mottram – Manchester Competitions. He was awarded the top prize at the New York International Piano Festival and Competition, and consequently gave his debut performance at Carnegie […]

Inna Montesclaros

PHILIPPINES Born in 1993 in Manila, Philippines, Inna Montesclaros began her piano studies when she was five years old. From winning local competitions such as the National Music Competition for Young Artists, the Rosario Picazo Piano Competition, the Piano Teachers Guild of the Philippines Competitions, she went on to win competitions in South Korea (Asia […]

Chun Lam U

HONG KONG, CHINA Chun Lam U was born in 2002 and is currently studying at the Oberlin Conservatory with Prof. Dang Thai Son. He started learning the piano at the age of 5 at the GMC Music Academy in Hong Kong with prof. Rizzo Chung. Chun Lam’s achievements include prizes at the Steinway & Sons […]

Ryunosuke Kishimoto

JAPAN Ryunosuke Kishimoto was born in Kanagawa, Japan. After studying at the Sapporo Conservatoire with Noriyuki Miyazawa, he moved to Vienna in September 2021 and started studying at the University of Music and Performing arts with professor Jan Jiracek von Arnim. In 2016 he won the 1st prize at the 70th Student Music Concours of […]