{"id":11372,"date":"2026-08-03T10:03:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11372"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:03:30","slug":"romanian-pianist-alexandra-dariescu-makes-bbc-proms-debut-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11372","title":{"rendered":"Romanian pianist Alexandra D\u0103riescu makes BBC Proms debut this week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romanian pianist Alexandra D\u0103riescu<\/strong> will perform at the BBC Proms, the summer classical music festival held annually at Royal Albert Hall and other venues across the United Kingdom, this week.<\/p>\n

She is the first Romanian female pianist to perform at the festival, joining a very small group of Romanian pianists to have appeared at the well-known event, namely the late Radu Lupu and M\u00eendru Katz.<\/p>\n

D\u0103riescu\u2019s concert will take place on August 5, at Royal Albert Hall, alongside the Hall\u00e9 Orchestra, with Kahchun Wong conducting.<\/p>\n

She will perform Fantaisie for Piano and Orchestra<\/em> by Nadia Boulanger, a work receiving its BBC Proms premiere. The choice of repertoire reflects D\u0103riescu\u2019s \u201clongstanding commitment to rediscovering and promoting works that remain underrepresented in the international concert repertoire, particularly those by women composers,\u201d a release from the Romanian Cultural Institute (ICR) explains. Throughout her career, she has championed music by Nadia Boulanger, Clara Schumann, Dora Peja\u010devi\u0107, Leokadiya Kashperova and Doreen Carwithen, alongside the major works of the piano repertoire.<\/p>\n

The program also features Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27<\/em>, as well as Maurice Ravel’s La vall\u00e9e des cloches <\/em>in an orchestration by Colin Matthews.<\/p>\n

Alexandra D\u0103riescu made her debut in Ia\u0219i at the age of nine with the National Orchestra of Moldova. At 17, she moved to the UK to study at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. She settled in the UK, becoming a British citizen and establishing an international career.<\/p>\n

A major career milestone came with her debut at Royal Albert Hall in 2013. She has performed with leading orchestras including the London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Oslo Philharmonic, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and Sydney Symphony Orchestra.<\/p>\n

Her advocacy for greater representation of women composers led to the creation of the Alexandra D\u0103riescu Award at the Leeds International Piano Competition, the first prize of its kind recognizing the performance of a work composed by a woman. In 2017, she created and produced the multimedia performance The Nutcracker and I<\/em>, combining piano music, dance and digital animation. The production has been staged more than 100 times across Europe, Asia, Australia and the United States.<\/p>\n

She has received numerous distinctions, including the title of Cultural Ambassador of Romania, the Order of the Crown of Romania in the rank of Officer, awarded by the Romanian Royal Family, and the Young European Leader distinction from Friends of Europe. In 2020, she was awarded Romania’s Order of Cultural Merit in the rank of Knight and became an Associate of the Royal Northern College of Music, where she also taught piano for two years. Since September 2024, she has been a professor of Piano at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London.<\/p>\n

The 2026 BBC Proms runs from July 17 to September 12, bringing together leading classical musicians from around the world. While most of the festival’s 86 concerts take place at Royal Albert Hall in London, this year’s edition also includes 14 Proms Across the UK concerts and residencies in Bristol, Gateshead, Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Mold, alongside associated events such as Proms in the Park. Established in 1895 by impresario Robert Newman and conductor Henry Wood as the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts, the festival has been organized and broadcast by the BBC since 1927.<\/p>\n

(Illustration: ICR)<\/em><\/p>\n

simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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