Opera Brasov - Artisti - Solisti - RADU Cristina - soprano

EDUCATION

2008-present: Phd Student at Bucharest National Academy of Music.

2003: Graduated of the National Academy of Music, Bucharest.

1993-1997: Music High school "Dinu Lipatti", Bucharest.

1985-1992: Music School, Bucharest - Studies of violin & piano.

MASTER CLASSES

2008: Master Class with Ileana Cotrubaş (The Bucharest National Opera, Romania).

2007: Master Class with Ileana Cotrubaş (Florence, Italy).

2007: Master Class with Ionel Pantea (The Bucharest National Opera, Romania).

2005: Master Class with Alain Nonat & Cristian Mihăilescu (Brno, Czech Republic).

2003: Master Class with Virginia Zeani (Pella, USA).

2003: Master Class with Felicity Lott (Lübeck, Germany).

2003: Master Class with Denice Graves (The Bucharest National Academy of Music, Romania).

PRIZES

2010: the Prize "Soprano of the Year 2009" and the Prize "The Trio of the Year 2009" -Camber Ensemble "Remember Enescu" - offered within "The Cultural Prizes Galla", Arcus

2009: The Public Prize in the 5th edition of the Hungarian Music Festival, Bucharest - Romania.

2007: First Prize in the International Competition Joseph Schmidt, Suceava - Romania.

2006: Semi-finalist in the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme Competition at the Royal Opera Covent Garden, London.

2005: Premier Prix de Finalist - the 4^th Place - in the Verviers International Singing Competition, Belgium.

2003: The Prize of the Union of Romanian Composers and Musicologists at the National Competition of Song, Romania.

2003: The Scholarship of the Foundation Frații bucovineni Sârghie, Bucharest - Romania.

2002: Second Prize and the Special prize for interpretation of Lied at the National Competition Martian Negrea, Romania.

2002: The Scholarship Yolanda Mărculescu, Bucharest - Romania.

2001: Great Award in the National Competition Mihail Jora, Bucharest - Romania.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2003-2009: Solist of the Braşov Opera House, Romania.

The lyrical repertory sung on the stage of Braşov Opera House comprises roles from operas of Mozart, Bellini, Donizetti, Bizet, Offenbach, Leoncavallo, Puccini.

International Opera Tours together with Braşov Opera ensemble:

2004: Tour with Don Pasquale" - G.Donizetti (as Norina) and „La Cenerentola" - G.Rossini (as Clorinde) - in Germany, Austria, Holland and Great Britain.

2005: Tour with „Les pêcheurs de perles" - G.Bizet (as Leila) and „Les Contes d'Hoffmann" - J.Offenbach (as Antonia and Giulietta) in France, Germany and Austria.

2006: Tour with „Le Nozze di Figaro" - W.A.Mozart (as the Countess Almaviva and Cherubino) and „Don Giovanni" - W.A.Mozart (as Donna Elvira) in Germany & Austria.

2007: Tour with „La Boheme" - G.Puccini (as Musetta) - in Spain

2007: Tour with „Norma" - V.Bellini (as Adalgisa) - in Germany & Austria.

2007: Performed in the first audition of the Spanish opera „La Casa de Bernarda Alba" of Miguel Ortega (with the role of Angustias).

2008-present: From 2008 Cristina Radu sings together with the pianists Corina Raducanu and Eugen Dumitrescu in recitals and cameral concerts - in The "Remember Enescu" Ensemble. Together with Eugen Dumitrescu she won in 2009 The Public Prize in the 5th edition of the Hungarian Music Festival from Bucharest.

Concerts together with The New Europe Symphony Orchestra - conducted by Silvio Wyler; The Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra - conducted by Vlad Conta; The Contemporary Music Ensemble „Profil" conducted by Tiberiu Soare; The „Philarmonia Orchestra" conducted by Nicolae Iliescu and "Camerata Valahica" conducted by Mikis Mihailidis.

Recitals with the cellists Alexandru Morosanu, Laura Buruiana; the organist Marcel Costea and the pianists Alexandru Petrovici and Tatiana Morosanu in the Concert halls in Bucharest (The Romanian  Atheneum, The Radio Concert Hall, The National Opera, The Cotroceni Palace, The Cantacuzino Palace, St.Iosif Cathedral) and in Braşov, Sinaia, Galaţi, Iaşi, Suceava, Râmnicu Vâlcea, Târgovişte. (see below the list of important concerts)

First auditions of works of Romanian contemporary music by: Diamandi Gheciu, Doru Popovici, Ana Giurgiu and Catalin Creţu (Bucharest 2002, 2003).

Participated in Radio broadcasts and TV shows (TVR Cultural - 2003, 2005, 2008; TVR1 - 2005; TVRM - 2003, 2005; TVS & RTT Brasov - 2005, 2007, 2008).

1995-1999: Member of the Romanian Radio Children's Choir, conducted by Eugenia Văcărescu- Necula in Bucharest. Concerts in Romania and musical tours in Belgium, France, Finland, USA, Italy, Austria, Switzerland.

RECORDINGS

2005: „Romanian Contemporary Music" - Compact Disc recorded with "Philarmonia Orchestra" from Bucharest, conducted by Nicolae Iliescu. The works recorded: the cantatas „Iarba pământului" of Dan Buciu and „In Memoriam Fundoianu" of Doru Popovici.

2002-2003: Songs by Grieg, Faure, Rachmaninov, Jora and Gheciu recorded with the pianist Alexandru Petrovici - for the Romanian Radio.

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