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Alina Bercu Music is my life!
This is what I said from the beginning
and I think it will never be otherwise.
Biography

Born in Campina, Romania, Alina started playing piano at the age of seven.

Since the autumn of 1999 she has settled in Brasov, to study piano with Professor Stela Dragulin from the Faculty of Music of Transylvania University.

Aged only 16, Alina Bercu passed the Franz Liszt Music University in Weimar, Germany, becoming thus since October 2006 Professor Grigory Gruzman’s student. She attends in parallel the courses of the National College Andrei Saguna in Brasov (2006-2009).

Since 2011 she is continuing her studies with professor Wolfgang Manz at the University of Music in Nürnberg.

She attended masterclasses with Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Leslie Howard, Andras Schiff, Menahem Pressler, Michael Sanderling, Ana Chumachenco, Wen-Sinn Yang, Werner Bärtschi, Lory Walfish, Rudolf Buchbinder.

Alina gave her first concert with an orchestra at only 9, succeeding in a very short while to conquer important stages in Europe, America and Asia including: The Romanian Athenaeum and Mihail Jora Studio from the Radio Broadcast Hall in Bucharest, Tonhalle Düsseldorf, Teo Otto Theater - Remscheid, Prinzregententheater Munchen, Musikhalle-Hamburg, Auditorium - Rome, Tonhalle Zürich, Carnegie Hall-New York, Theatre du Vevey.

She has already performed more than 200 times with various orchestras, including The Chamber Orchestra and the National Orchestra of the Romanian Broadcasting Company, George Enescu Orchestra of Bucharest, Bergische Symphoniker in Remscheid and Mozart Orchester Hamburg, The State Philharmonic Orchestra of Vienna, Gesellschaft Orchestra of Zurich, Gulf Coast Symphony – Mississippi (USA), Chamber Orchestra of Laussane and Limburgs Symfonie Orkest – Roermond (Netherland).

She collaborated with renowned conductors such as Sergiu Comissiona (USA), Misha Katz (France), Romely Pfund, Robert Stehli (Germany), Jan Stulen, Theo Wolters (the Netherlands), Paolo Arrivabeni (Italy), John Wesley Strickler (USA), Ilarion Ionescu Galati, Horia Andreescu, Emil Simon, Paul Popescu, Petre Sbarcea, Vlad Conta, Ludowic Bacs and Ovidiu Balan (Romania).

She has made recordings for the Golden Audio Collection of the Romanian Broadcast Company, Live broadcasts on Radio and TV: TVR Romania Cultural, Realitatea TV, ESPACE SRR Switzerland and Eurovision, Telepace-Italy, -NBC-USA, METRO TV-Indonesia, Fuga Libera Brussels.

In 2010, Alina Bercu with famous vilonist Ilian Garnetz they made a Schubert-Ysaye- Brahms recording for the Fuga Libera Label. This CD has received the Golden Label in Belgium and the Cle d’Or in France.

From 2005 Alina has been involved with chamber music Duo with cello, violin or piano, Trio, Quartett and Quintett. She is member of the ensembles "Duo Enescu" and “Trialogue Musical


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