pianist, composer and poet, is a profoundly prolific artist. He has won the José Iturbi International Piano Competition, the First European Union Piano Competition and the George Enescu Competition, where he was awarded the title of Officer of Romanian Cultural Merit. He has performed at the Teatro La Fenice, the Mariinsky Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, the Metropolitan Opera, the Southbank Centre, the Salle Cortot, Schumann Haus, Novel Hall in Taipei, the Sala Silvestre Revueltas in Mexico and in Prague’s Nostitz Palace, among other venues.
He has worked with conductors such as Constantine Orbelian, Ormsby Wilkins, Rumon Gamba, Romeo Rimbu, Robert Houlihan, Karl Sollak, Marco de Prosperis, Radu Postavaru, Christian Badea, Bruno Aprea, Ramón Tébar, Justus Frantz, Francesco Angelico, Yaron Traub, Max Bragado, Paul Daniel, Ryan Haskins, Theodore Kuchar, Jonathan Pasternack, Yuri Krasnapolsky, Alexis Soriano, Francisco Valero, Shinya Ozaki, Radu Gabriel Ciorei and Manuel Hernández Silva, as well as with the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica della Fenice, George Enescu Philharmonic, Bucharest Radio Orchestra, Timisoara Philharmonic, Cluj Philharmonic, Oradea Philharmonic, Brasov Philharmonic, Ploiesti Philharmonic, Iasi Philharmonic, Targu Mures Philharmonic, Satu Mare Philharmonic, Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao, Orquesta de Valencia, Sioux City Symphony Orchestra, Monterey Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Euskadi, Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga, Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Murcia, Spain’s Radio and Television Orchestra (RTVE), American Ballet Theatre Orchestra of New York, Lviv Philharmonic Orchestra and Bari Philharmonic Orchestra.
He received the ICMA Award (International Classical Music Award) for his album Fantasque with the violinist Franziska Pietsch. At present he lives in Madrid where he has helped to develop the Academic Programme for Interpretation at Musical Arts, Madrid.