Andrei Licaret, Piano April 3, 2010

Downtown Piano Works is pleased to welcome international concert Pianist Andrei Licaret to our Fine Artist Concert Series. As always, there is no charge for admission but space is limited to 65. Please RSVP (301) 631-1234 to guarantee a seat for this performance.

Romanian pianist Andrei Licaret is considered to be a great personality of his generation, delivering a rhythmic and energetic musical display despite his youth. At age 27, he is one of the rising stars on the Classical music scene. Born in Bucharest, Andrei was five years old when he started to learn the piano with his father. He made his orchestral debut at age eleven, playing a Mozart concerto and since then, he has given concerts throughout Europe, including venues in Paris, Enghien, Santander, Alicante, Berlin, Wurzburg, Rome, Thessaloniki, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Prague, St.Gallen, Tel-Aviv, and in the United States, including New York, Washington D.C., Boston, Houston, Iowa, and New Jersey.

Mr. Licaret has been invited by all the important Romanian orchestras and played under the baton of conductors such as Cristian Mandeal, Horia Andreescu, Jin Wang, Arnold Ostman, Arie Vardi, Ilarion Ionescu-Galati , Florentin Mihaescu.

He is a prize winner of several competitions, among them Jeuness Musicales 1st Prize(1996), Bucharest Yamaha 1st Prize (2002), Lorry Wallfish Prize (2003) , 2nd Prize in Tel-Hai Competition (2007) and 2nd Prize in the Shreveport Concerto Competition(2008).

His teachers have included Gabriela Enasescu at the George Enescu Music High-school in Bucharest, Viniciu Moroianu, Dana Borsan, Dan Dediu (with whom he studied composition) at Bucharest Conservatory and Jacques Rouvier (in Paris). He has also been a regular student of Dmitri Baskirov’s Mozarteum master-classes in Salzburg.

Andrei Licaret is a member of the “Henri Coanda” Foundation and has recorded for the Romanian Radio and the National Romanian Television.

He is currently studying with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory.

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