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Mara
Dobresco was born in Bucharest, where she began her
music studies.
In
1996, after graduating from the “George Enesco”
Academy of Music in Bucharest, she entered the Conservatoire
National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where
she studied under Gérard Fremy, winning the First
Prize in piano playing, the Prize for Chamber Music
and the Diplôme de Formation Supérieure
summa cum laude in 2001. She then went on to study vocal
soloist accompaniment under Anne Grapotte. |
In
2000, she was a prize winner at the last International Piano
Competition in Sydney and obtained scholarships from the Yamaha
and Meyer Foundations; she has won prizes at the International
Competition of Epinal, the « Maria Canals » International
Competition in Barcelona, the International Competition for
piano and orchestra in Cantu and the « S. Rachmaninoff
» International Piano Competition. Since then, she has
been broadening her horizons with leading musical personalities
such as Martha Argerich, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Jeff Cohen,
Hans Leygraf, Patrick Cohen, Dominique Merlet, to mention
but a few …
At
the same time, she has been building up her experience through
recitals and concerts in Europe, Asia, South America and Australia,
solo performances with philharmonic orchestras in Romania
and France, and recording for Romanian radio and television,
as well as for Radio France.
Finally,
in 2002 she made her first disc.
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