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Dana Ciocarlie

Biography

Awards and honours

  • 2nd Major Prize - Robert Schumann International Competition - Zwickau
  • Sandor Vegh Special Prize - Geza Anda Competition - Zurich
  • International Pro Musicis Prize
  • Winner – Young Concert Artist European Auditions – Leipzig
  • Winer – Cziffra Fondation
 

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The complete piano works of Robert Schumann
 

In 2018, Dana Ciocarlie was one of the 3 finalists nominated for the Victoires de la Musique Classique among the 443 recordings presented in the "Recording of the Year" category, with her Complete works for solo piano by Robert Schumann. She recorded this complete work in fifteen public concerts, between 2016 and 2021, at the Palais de Béhague of the Romanian Embassy in Paris. This world premiere is supported by Yamaha, the Safran Foundation, the Romanian Cultural Institute and the Romanian Embassy in France.

The complete collection was released in September 2017 as a boxed set of 13 CDs - La Dolce Volta label – which received unanimous acclaim from the press, who didn't hesitate to compare her musicality to Wilhelm Kempff and Clara Haskil. To mark the release of this complete Schumann recording, Dana Ciocarlie gave a concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris. On France Musique, she devoted a cycle of some forty broadcasts to the works of Robert Schumann in Jean-Pierre Derrien's L'atelier du musicien, where she was a regular guest between 2001 and 2015.

Following her complete Schumann collection, Dana Ciocarlie is now devoting herself to Mozart's 25 Concertos for solo piano, with the Open Chamber Orchestra conducted by Yaïr Benaïm. This public concert recording project at the Palais de Béhague of the Romanian Embassy in Paris began in September 2022. It will continue over several years until the boxed set of these 25 Mozart concertos is released.

Artistic identity and musical background

Gifted with a quicksilver temperament where generosity rivals commitment, Dana Ciocarlie has a vast repertoire, ranging from Johann Sebastian Bach to today's composers. Dedicated to numerous works by Nicolas Bacri, Edith Canat de Chizy, Karol Beffa, Frédéric Verrières, Helena Winkelman and Dan Dediu, she is recognized as one of Horatiu Radulescu's leading interpreters.

Trained in the Romanian piano school with Dinu Lipatti, Clara Haskil and Radu Lupu, Dana Ciocarlie also studied in Paris with Victoria Melki, Dominique Merlet and Georges Pludermacher. Her talent has been recognized by numerous prestigious international awards.

Her meeting with the German pianist Christian Zacharias was to prove decisive, particularly in her exploration of the piano works of Franz Schubert.

Dana Ciocarlie is a sought-after chamber music performer. Her preferred partners include violinists Sarah Nemtanu, Irina Muresanu, Elise Bertrand, Marianne Piketty, Gaëtane Prouvost, Hélène Collerette, Jean-Marc Phillips-Varjabédian, Laurent Korcia, Yaïr Benaïm, Gilles Apap, Pierre Fouchenneret and violist Gérard Caussé, cellists Emmanuelle Bertrand, Astrig Siranossian, Diana Ligeti, Alexander Kniazev, Ophélie Gaillard, Henri Demarquette, Raphaël Chrétien, horn players David Guerrier and Hervé Joulain, clarinettist Raphaël Sévère, the Psophos, Talich and Danel Quartets. She has performed under such conductors as Lawrence Foster, Yoav Talmi, Edmon Colomer, Horia Andreescu and Christian Zacharias.

Her many activities throughout the world in recital, chamber music or concerto with orchestra have taken her to the United States, Canada, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Russia, Netherlands, Romania)...

In Paris, Dana Ciocarlie has performed in the most prestigious venues: Cité de la Musique, Radio France auditorium, Musée d'Orsay, Louvre auditorium, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Théâtre du Châtelet, Opéra Bastille amphitheater, Salle Pleyel, Salle Gaveau, Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, Invalides and Théâtre de l'Athénée. She has also performed at MIDEM in Cannes, Opéra de Lyon, Opéra de Dijon, Arsenal de Metz, Salle Molière in Lyon, La Criée Scène Nationale in Marseille and Salle Poirel in Nancy.

Also a regular at France's major classical music festivals, the Romanian pianist has appeared several times at La Folle Journée de Nantes, La Roque d'Anthéron, La Grange de Meslay, Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier, Berlioz à La Côte Saint-André, Piano aux Jacobins in Toulouse, Flâneries Musicales de Reims, Orangerie de Sceaux, Festival du Périgord Noir, Auvers-sur-Oise, Printemps des Arts de Monte Carlo, Abbaye de Fontevraud, Festival Chopin à Bagatelle...

2024-2025 Season

17 Décembre 2025

Musée Marmottan

Paris – France

With Julie Depardieu and Gaétane Prouvost

26 Novembre – 14 Décembre 2025

Tournée au Vietnam et Cambodge

22 Novembre 2025

Théâtre d’Enghien les Bains

Enghien les Bains – France

With Yaïr Benhaïm

October 15 - November 3, 2025

Tournée en Chine

With Estelle Revaz

27 Septembre 2025

Recital

Genève – Suisse

With Estelle Revaz

19 Septembre 2025

Maison natale de Georges Enesco

Iassi – Roumanie

13-22 Août 2025

Festival MusicAlp

Tignes – France

12 Août 2025

Festival de Musiques en Bazadais

Bazas – France

23 Juillet 2025

Festival de Menet

Menet – France

4 Juillet 2025

Les Escapades musicales

Andernos – France

With Pierre Fouchenneret

28 Juin 2025

Festival du Journal Intime – Une soirée chez les Schumann

 Saint Gildas de Rhuys – France

With Julie Depardieu and Delphine Haidan

23-27 Juin 2025

Festival des Nuits Pianistiques

Chisinau – Moldavie

16 Juin 2025

Salle Cortot

Paris – France

With Christophe Giovaninetti, Philippe Cuper, et Vincent Figuri

June 13, 2025

38th Riom piano festival

Riom – France

With Christiane Baume-Sanglard

June 7, 2025

Colette et l’amour

Saint-Sauveur en Puisaye – France

With Julie Depardieu and Gaëtane Prouvost

5 Juin 2025

One Ocean Science Congress

Nice – France

2 Juin 2025

Grand Salon du Musée de l’Armée

Paris – France

31 Mai 2025

Une soirée chez les Schumann

Angers – France

With Julie Depardieu and Delphine Haidan

May 25, 2025

Château de Coppet – Schubertiade

Coppet - Switzerland

With Estelle Revaz and Gwendoline Masin

May 23, 2025

Espace du Roudour – Une soirée chez les Schumann

Carantec – France

With Julie Depardieu and Delphine Haidan

May 12-16, 2025

Master-classes au Brescia Talent Music Academy

Brescia – Italie

May 7-10, 2025

Morocco Tour

3 Mai 2025

Musicales des Causses de Gramat

Gramat – France

With Diana Ligeti

April 26-29, 2025

Les Concerts de midi

Rennes – France

With Diana Ligeti

April 10-13, 2025

Member of the Mayenne's international piano competition jury

Mayenne – France

6 Avril 2025

Eglise de Montbron

Montbron – France

With Amanda Favier and Aurélienne Brauner

April 3, 2025

Auditorium de l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris – Mémoire de Sainte Cécile

Paris – France

1er Avril 2025

Pax Musica

Paris – France

March 16, 2025

Les Douves d’Onzain

Onzain – France

With Aurélien Pascal

March 9, 2025

Schumann recital at Marseille's opera

Marseille – France 

12 Février 2025

Salle Witkowski

Lyon – France

13-24 Janvier 2025

Représentations de la pièce Forts de Catherine Anne

Meudon, Fouesnant et Rennes – France

January 11, 2025

Concerts de poche

Châtres – France

With Delphine Haidan

December 19-20, 2024

Grande Salle de l’Athénée Roumain

Bucarest - Romania

With L’orchestre Philharmonique “George Enescu”

December, 13, 2024

Lavoir Moderne Parisien

Paris – France

8 Décembre 2024

Musica Eaubonne

Paris – France

With Élodie Kimmel

November 30, 2024

Salle Cortot – Concert de lancement du disque Mozart

Paris – France

With l’Open Chamber Orchestra

November 8, 2024

Fêtes romantiques de Croissy

Croissy – France

October 26, 2024

Humboldt Saal – hommage à Marina Tsvetaïeva

Freiburg – Allemagne

With Juan Braceras and Maria Thorgevskaya

October 20, 2024

Les Amis de la Musique

Vendôme – France

October 16, 2024

Salle Cortot

Paris – France

With Gaëtane Prouvost

October 10-13, 2024

Netherlands Tour

September 24 - October 4, 2024

Résidence de création de la pièce “Fort”

Avignon – France

September 20-22, 2024

Festival “Musique aux Mirabelles”

Hattonchâtel – France

With Aurélien Pascal

September 9-19, 2024

Résidence de création de la pièce “Fort”

Fouesnant – France

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