Daria Ioana Tudor

ROMANIA

Daria Tudor was born on July 25, 1997, in Ploieşti, Romania. At the age of 4 she began taking piano lessons in her hometown with Prof. Anca Florentina Borcea. From 2004 to 2014 she studied with professors Şerban-Dimitrie Soreanu from the University of Music in Bucharest, and Adriana Bocăneanu at the National College of Arts Dinu Lipatti in Bucharest. In October 2015 she started studying at the University of the Arts Berlin in the class of Professor Pascal Devoyon, and since October 2018 she is studying with Professor Björn Lehmann.

Since the beginning of her studies in Berlin, Daria took part in festivals such as: Kissinger Sommer, Mozartfest Würzburg, Encuentro de Musica y Academia de Santander, Alpenarte Schwarzenberg, Crescendo Festival Berlin.

In June 2019 Daria received the Enlight Prize at the Art of the Piano Festival (Cincinnati, USA) as Best Young Artist of the Year and in April 2020 she made her debut at Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Since then a few of her solo and chamber music recordings have been broadcast by DLF. Since 2021 Daria is collaborating with the Romanian Broadcasting Society and under its label two CDs will be released in 2022, together with violinist Ioana-Cristina Goicea and cellist Andrei Ioniță, including chamber music works by Beethoven and Shostakovich.

In 2021 Daria started collaborating with the Karajan – Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker as a harpsichord player and she’s given concerts in the Welcome Back Week and Patricia Kopatchinskaja – Artist in Residence programs of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

She received further artistic inspiration from: Maria João Pires at the Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel, Belgium; Axel Bauni, Eric Schneider, Frank-Immo Zichner, Artemis Quartett, Fauré Quartett (University of the Arts, Berlin) and she took part in masterclasses with Boris Petrushansky, Leon Fleisher, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Grigory Gruzman, Vladimir Feltsman, Andrei Gavrilov, Håkon Austbø.

As a chamber musician she played with artists such as: Zakhar Bron, Mihaela Martin, Patricia Kopatschinskaja, Andrei Ioniță, Hansjörg Schellenberger, Valentin Răduțiu, Andrej Žust, Marko Zupan, Tomaž Močilnik, Stephan Braun, Haruma Sato and Florian Mitrea.

PROGRAM:

Online Round
Bach Prelude and Fugue in D major, WTC I
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 26 in E flat major Op. 81a, Les adieux
Liszt Paganini Étude No. 6
Debussy Étude No. 7, pour les degrés chromatiques
Schubert Piano Sonata in A minor D. 784

Semifinal
Enescu Piano Suite No. 2 in D major Op. 10, Des cloches sonores
Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57, Appassionata
Bach/Busoni Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ

Final
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor Op. 23