Kira Frolu

  • Piano

Kira Frolu is a pianist born in Bucharest, a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with William Fong and Tessa Nicholson. She is currently continuing her studies at the Accademia del Ridotto in Italy, under the guidance of Prof. Natalia Trull.

Kira has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the Leverhulme Trust Scholarship, the Sir Lauren Robson Award, the Countess of Munster Award and the HelpMusiciansUK Award. She is a laureate of the "Heirs of Musical Romania" programme organised by Radio Romania and has won important distinctions at international competitions, including the Pianale Festival (Germany), the "Vladimir Krainev" Competition (Ukraine) and the "Evangelia Tjarri" Competition (Cyprus), as well as at national music competitions in Romania.

She has given recitals at prestigious venues such as Wigmore Hall, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, St. James Piccadilly, the Romanian Athenaeum and the Radio Hall in Bucharest. She has participated in the Musique Femmes (Brussels) and Piano Loop (Croatia) festivals and has performed as a soloist with European orchestras, including the Radio Chamber Orchestra, the Cluj Philharmonic, the Transylvania Philharmonic and the Torun Symphony Orchestra in Poland. She made her solo debut at the age of fifteen with the Mihail Jora Philharmonic Orchestra in Bacău and has appeared on Radio România Muzical, Radio Guerilla and BBC 3.

Passionate about chamber music, Kira has collaborated with the Arcadia Quartet and numerous instrumentalists in recitals. She is a scholarship holder of the Sonoro Interferente 2025 programme and has participated in masterclasses with renowned pianists, including Stephen Kovacevich, Elisabeth Leonskaja, Beatrice Rana, Boris Petrushansky and others.

In 2021, she founded a piano festival dedicated to young Romanian musicians, an initiative through which she aims to share her international experience with the new generation.