Aurelia Vișovan
- Piano
Aurelia Vişovan is an internationally acclaimed Romanian pianist, harpsichordist and fortepianist, winner of the Musica Antiqua Competition Brugge (fortepiano) in 2019. She is currently a piano professor at the University for Music in Nuremberg. Miss Vișovan has performed concerts in halls such as the Großer Saal of the Berliner Philharmonie, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, BOZAR, Auditorio de Zaragoza, Brucknerhaus Linz, Casa da Musica Porto, Musikverein Vienna, and was a soloist with the Philharmonisches Kammerorchester Dresden, the Romanian Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Seto Philharmonic Orchestra, Das Sinfonieorchester Berlin, among others. In 2017, she performed the world premiere of the Piano Concerto by George Enescu.
Her CD recordings for Ricercar, Passacaille, Berlin Classics and KNS Classical present her on both modern piano and historical instruments. She has won over 25 competition prizes, among them the 1st Prize in the Santa Cecilia Piano Competition in Porto, the 5th Prize in the Takamatsu Piano Competition and the 2nd prize in the Paola Bernardi Harpsichord Competition in Bologna. Aurelia Vișovan has studied with Adriana Bera, Monica Chifor and Gerda Türk in her native country and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna with Martin Hughes (piano) and Gordon Murray (harpsichord); in 2021 she obtained a doctor title with a thesis focused on historical keyboard instruments.